The New Wave Meets the Tradition of Quality: Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Jacques Demy's importance in the French New Wave ironically becomes clearest by way of his least obviously New Wave work of the 1960s. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which represents a curious intersection between the New Wave aesthetic and that of the "Tradition of Quality," against which the movement claimed to rebel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]