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Film Festival - Screening of The Umbrella of Cherbourg (1964) + Q&A with Prof. Andrew C. Lovett [Registration on External Link]

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Thu, Mar 26, 2026

7 PM – 9 PM EDT (GMT-4)

Princeton Garden Theater

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Two teen-aged star-crossed lovers Genevieve and Guy, who develop a relationship through clandestine meetings...

As part of the fourth edition of the Princeton French Film Festival and in partnership with the Princeton Garden Theater, you are invited to the screening of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) (French: Les parapluies de Cherbourg) in its 4K restored version, followed by a Q&A with Prof. Prof. Andrew C. Lovett (Department of Music, Princeton University).

🏆 Winner of three prizes at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival (including Palme d'Or) and received 5 Oscar nominations, including for Best Music.

Logistics: In French with English subtitles. Eventbrite tickets are for Princeton University students only. Other attendees must purchase their tickets on the Princeton Garden Theater website here.

Synopsis: Cherbourg, November 1957. Madame Emery and her daughter, Geneviève, run a store called The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Geneviève is in love with Guy, a mechanic working in a garage. When her mother learns of the relationship, she disapproves. Guy lives with his aunt, who is seriously ill. He is called to do his military service in Algeria. The two lovers must part. Pregnant and desperate because she has little news of Guy, Geneviève is forced by her mother to marry Roland Cassard, a rich wholesaler of precious stones. She leaves Cherbourg with her mother.

Organized by the Princeton University's Princeton Film Festival organization. We thank our sponsors and partners for their support (complete list here). Open to everyone regardless of identity. All rooms are wheelchair-friendly and attendees can contact us at filmfestival@princeton.edu for special accommodations (preferably 48 hours before the scheduled event). Please be aware that pictures might be taken before, during, and after the event.

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Andrew C. Lovett

Princeton University

Andrew Lovett’s work is mostly focused on opera (“music-theater”) often combined with electronics. In addition, he composes chamber music and electroacoustic “soundscape” or acousmatic work, often using multi-speaker systems and often related to or inspired by the sound of language and speech.



He has also scored a number of films, mostly experimental but including recently, the feature film “Wreckers” which was directed by Dictynna Hood and released in 2012.



Lovett has taught at Princeton since 2009, and before that at Cambridge University, Anglia Ruskin University and Trinity College of Music, London. In 2012 to 2013 he was a visiting Scholar at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University.



Lovett’s particular area of interest is very-small scale opera and music theater. This ranges from pieces for solo voice through pieces for single voice with electronics to full-scale operas with chamber ensemble. Many pieces were developed as collaborations with an ensemble in London called The Electric Voice Theatre (directed by Frances M Lynch). These include Abraham On Trial (2005); Lonely Sits the City (2009); and Don’t Breathe A Word (2015). Most recently, he completed a one-act chamber opera, The Analysing Engine (2016) which will be premiered in 2017.


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Co-hosted with: French and Francophone Society, Princeton Undergraduate Francophone Society