The films of Jacques Demi

Recently there was a radio program with the above title. I listened with interest because I have loved  'Les Parapluies de Cherbourg' ever since we first saw it in about 1965. More recently we saw the stage version and it had the same magic except that, at the end, the moment that had the greatest emotional impact was not the one that I expected. This was finally explained by the radio program. Apparently most people are torn apart because the lovers have married the wrong people and will never see each other again and when I was younger I probably cried for the same reason. Now I cry when the man walks back to his wife and picks up his little boy. The film still works but I am so much older.