Welcome to another edition of Over/Under Movies, the podcast in which we choose one overrated film and one underrated film — similar in tone, genre, style, or however we may see fit — and we discuss them.
On this episode, my co-host Oktay Ege Kozak is joined by fellow Playlist writer Andrew Crump (I am absent for this one, real life sometimes gets in the way) to discuss two musicals with the throughline of a bittersweet romance. Instead of the usual format of discussing the “Over” pick before moving into the “Under,” Oktay and Andrew weave back and forth in their discussion on Damien Chazelle‘s critical and commercial darling “La La Land” and Jacques Demy‘s recently Criterion’d tragi-musical, “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.”
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Oktay and I briefly discussed La La Land back on our two-part, year-end Over/Under episode at the end of 2016 (Oktay placed it as an “Over”), but those ten minutes weren’t enough for him to get out all of his feelings on the film, in that it is a charming film but gets bogged down in a relationship plot that is paper-thin and too mundane in their problems to really register. Andrew feels a similar way, but then they move on to Demy’s Umbrellas of Cherbourg – about two young lovers separated by war and parental disapproval – which they praise for having a doomed love story that really makes you feel for when the inevitable happens.
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