This is a Pixar animated film short, not quite 7 minutes long. It is contained as an "extra" on the DVD of the Pixar movie, "Monsters University."
The animated setting is any large city, in the early evening, probably in winter as it is already dark and the crowds are off work and headed to their homes or other evening destinations. There are yellow taxicabs, street construction, and underground trains. It starts to rain.
In a sea of black umbrellas we see a bright blue one, masculine with eyes and a smile. Soon it notices a bright red umbrella, feminine and also with eyes and a bit more glamour. They make eye contact, they are attracted to each other.
As the sea of umbrellas movie, and the man carrying the blue umbrella enters an underground station, a gust of updraft strips the umbrella away, and it is carried aloft, some distance. With the help of gutters gushing water at the right time, or a street construction sign directing traffic away, the blue umbrella survives the traffic, barely.
Then he is picked up, perhaps by his original owner, perhaps by someone else, it doesn't really matter. But as he is carried to a nearby café, he finds that the man is meeting a lady, the one with the red umbrella. The umbrellas are reunited.
The only possible hint of location is the name of the café, "Parapluie", which sounds French. So maybe it was Paris. But maybe not, because "Parapluie" is simply the French word for "Umbrella."
A clever and entertaining short film.
The animated setting is any large city, in the early evening, probably in winter as it is already dark and the crowds are off work and headed to their homes or other evening destinations. There are yellow taxicabs, street construction, and underground trains. It starts to rain.
In a sea of black umbrellas we see a bright blue one, masculine with eyes and a smile. Soon it notices a bright red umbrella, feminine and also with eyes and a bit more glamour. They make eye contact, they are attracted to each other.
As the sea of umbrellas movie, and the man carrying the blue umbrella enters an underground station, a gust of updraft strips the umbrella away, and it is carried aloft, some distance. With the help of gutters gushing water at the right time, or a street construction sign directing traffic away, the blue umbrella survives the traffic, barely.
Then he is picked up, perhaps by his original owner, perhaps by someone else, it doesn't really matter. But as he is carried to a nearby café, he finds that the man is meeting a lady, the one with the red umbrella. The umbrellas are reunited.
The only possible hint of location is the name of the café, "Parapluie", which sounds French. So maybe it was Paris. But maybe not, because "Parapluie" is simply the French word for "Umbrella."
A clever and entertaining short film.