Instead, every word is sung rather than spoken as 17-year-old Geneviève (Deneuve) falls sweetly and madly in love with car mechanic Guy (Castelnuovo). Not that it’s a musical in the belt-‘em-out tradition. You'd need to have a sliver of ice lodged in your heart not to be moved by ‘The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’ – a musical that has even hardened musical-haters melting into puddles. JRĬast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovoīest quote: 'People only die of love in the movies.'ĭefining moment: A sad, bittersweet meeting in the snow, two lovers seeing each other for the first time in years. She’s wised up by film’s end, yet for most of the journey, we’re seduced alongside her. It’s the naïve and often heartbreaking account of a lonely girl getting a taste of adulthood, sex and the rush of being bad (and in love). Malick swaddles their exploits in a sheen of soft-focus sunsets and the twinkling music of Carl Orff, but the most romantic element of ‘Badlands’ is Spacek’s narration.
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Loosely based on a real-life Texas crime spree perpetrated by young lovers, the movie features a smouldering Martin Sheen as frustrated greaser Kit, and Sissy Spacek as his teenage girlfriend Holly. Here’s where the brilliant career of Terrence Malick begins – and even with such epics as ‘The Thin Red Line’ and ‘The Tree of Life’ on the horizon, many still hold the director’s first film as his most perfect. THīest quote: 'Little did I realise that what began in the alleys and backways of this quiet town would end in the Badlands of Montana.'ĭefining moment: Kit sees Holly ‘standin' on her front lawn, just a-twirling her baton’, as Bruce Springsteen put it in the ‘Badlands’-inspired song, ‘Nebraska’. Best of all, ‘Harold and Maude’ is also still devastatingly romantic: a story of soulmates, in the most literal sense. So the idea of a teenage boy (Cort) shacking up with a batty old woman (Gordon) is still a challenge to social norms. Partly this is because none of its themes have gone out of date: we still live in a world of empty privilege and rigid hierarchy, petty authority and relentless conformism. How many of them are still effective today? But ‘Harold and Maude’, the gentle flipside of the revolutionary dream, is every bit as charming, affecting and surprising as it must have been on its first release.
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The hippy era was full of movies that attempted to confront square society, to shock viewers into some undefined form of action.
Go and love some more.'ĭefining moment: In a field of daisies overlooking a vast military cemetery, Maude explains her philosophy of life. Best quote: 'Oh, Harold, that's wonderful.