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A young wman separated from hr lover by wr faces a Iife-altering decision.

Director: Hal Ashby Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort Best quote: Oh, Harold, thats wonderful.

Defining moment: ln a field f daisies overlooking vast military cmetery, Maude explains hr philosophy of Iife.

Partly this is because none of its themes have gone out of date: we still live in a world of empty privilege and rigid hierarchy, petty authority and relentless conformism.

So the ida of a tenage boy (Cort) shcking up with batty old wman (Gordon) is stiIl a challenge t social norms.

There is nothing particularly new about the plot, which is a straightforward and uncomplicated love story divided into three acts, but the beauty of this film is in the telling of it.

All the dialogue in this film is sung, which at first is a little unsettling, but it actually takes very little time to adjust to.

The versechorus format of popular music and the musical genre is eschewed for an approach more resembling a modern opera, as the characters croon their lines to each other over a continuous score.

Because of this I found the French a lot easier to understand than with more naturalistic films, which was fairly handy for me as the print I was watching was with Dutch subtitles I must confess, I did find that the music (written by Michel Legrand) began to grate towards the end of the 87 minute running time but even so there is still much to admire here.

Visually its stunning, with a bold and vibrant colour palette of almost hallucinogenic intensity and sumptuous costume and set design (that wallpaper).

The opening credit sequence sets the mood perfectly: a birds eye view of the inhabitants of Cherbourg in the rain beneath their umbrellas as they walk across the frame is reduced to a colourful abstraction.

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