Movie Song of the Week: “I Will Wait for You”

I posted the Connie Francis cover version of this song last week. It only seems right that I also post the original French version from 1964's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

I hope you all have an abundant supply of tissues handy.

Pop Song of the Week: “I Will Wait for You”

I don't know if Connie Francis is the most appropriate artist for the first week of June and I know she has had more famous songs than this one. But this song is the one song by her that I love the best. I know it's a cover version but it's a good cover version and I love it every bit as much as I do the original. Even if it's not in French.

I hope you all enjoy it.

Dueling Images

Of course, these images have a lot more in common than one might think. Though I think it's safe to say that the first one is NOT French. And, contrary to what many Northern Europeans appear to believe, I doubt she was a real-life blonde either.

Thoughts on The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

I cried the first time I saw this movie.

I rarely cry when I see movies.

I especially rarely cry whenever I see movies that are supposed to make me cry.

Yet this film managed to touch my heart in a way that so many recent musicals (yes, I'm looking at you, Moulin Rouge!, and I'm looking at you, too, Rent) have not.

I don't have the words to do this film justice.

Suffice it to say that this is the first film that made me realize why people made such a fuss about the young Catherine Deneuve.

Although the story is a simple one (a man and woman fall in love, then get separated by circumstance, only to meet up again after quite a long time), it is nevertheless a moving one.

And that ending. Alas, all too realistic and yet moving in a way that far more blatant tearjerkers can only dream of.

And the song Catherine's character sings to her boyfriend just before he goes off to war manages to be all so touching in any language.

Some things just don't need translation.