Tributes have begun pouring in for Michel Legrand, the three-time Oscar-winning composer of “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” “Yentl” and “The Young Girls of Rochefort,” who died at his home early Saturday in Paris at the age of 86.
Gilles Jacob, the former president of the Cannes Film Festival, said that Legrand’s “notes were soft as caress, his umbrellas made us cry. By leaving us on the sly, Michel Legrand commits his first false note. Music, Maestro, please.”
On le fredonnait partout. Ses notes étaient douces comme des caresses, ses parapluies nous faisaient pleurer. En nous quittant en catimini, Michel Legrand commet sa première fausse note. Musique, maestro, please.
— gilles jacob (@jajacobbi) January 26, 2019
Pierre Lescure, the current president of the Cannes Film Festival, tweeted: “Michel Legrand composed cult songs. And some little fantasies, full of his pretty fierce irony. I remember this title ‘1964’ where a father tells the Yéyés to his children.
Gilles Jacob, the former president of the Cannes Film Festival, said that Legrand’s “notes were soft as caress, his umbrellas made us cry. By leaving us on the sly, Michel Legrand commits his first false note. Music, Maestro, please.”
On le fredonnait partout. Ses notes étaient douces comme des caresses, ses parapluies nous faisaient pleurer. En nous quittant en catimini, Michel Legrand commet sa première fausse note. Musique, maestro, please.
— gilles jacob (@jajacobbi) January 26, 2019
Pierre Lescure, the current president of the Cannes Film Festival, tweeted: “Michel Legrand composed cult songs. And some little fantasies, full of his pretty fierce irony. I remember this title ‘1964’ where a father tells the Yéyés to his children.
- 1/26/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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