The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

There are various ways in which different people’s world views could be put into clearly defined categories, but the simplest and sharpest is the one that separates people into hopeless romantics and cynical realists. It is hard to imagine those two world views being reconciled, especially not in works of art, which overwhelmingly tend to adopt the first category. But such works of art can be created, including film…