*mild spoilers ahead*
A very beautiful Vinca (Nicole Berger ) is in love with the young "Phil"... I'd like to be that boy :)
They meet every summer for Holiday, at the seaside, where their respective parents rent the same house.
They know each other since childhood, and the boy is just 16, only one year older than the girl.
The fact is, they aren't children anymore...
That's the start of the story...
A mature woman is soon involved, superb Edwige Feuillère...
This is a kind of reductive presentation, let's say I'm not very good at that...
Anyway the film is developed with quiet an elegant sensitivity, without showing much,
most of what is "supposed to happen" is just suggested...
and yet I was not born in 1954, that it was a scandal when it came out doesn't surprise me...
You have to remember that before the mid 60, the sense of decency was quiet rigorous, and that a lot of topics were "tabu" !
At the extreme opposite of what is happening now, in most what is called "the advanced or civilized world".
Back to the film : I enjoyed it a lot..
The acting of the three protagonists have the proper tones...
With that psychological study of human nature, about the discovery of love/hate relations,
the right touch on every thing, Autant-Lara made a beautiful and elegant film.
May be not a masterpiece, but not very far away !
8,5 would be more appropriate, but for what it is : 10/10 certainly too generous, but who likes doesn't count !
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eyes in the head of a poet Orson Welles
A very beautiful Vinca (Nicole Berger ) is in love with the young "Phil"... I'd like to be that boy :)
They meet every summer for Holiday, at the seaside, where their respective parents rent the same house.
They know each other since childhood, and the boy is just 16, only one year older than the girl.
The fact is, they aren't children anymore...
That's the start of the story...
A mature woman is soon involved, superb Edwige Feuillère...
This is a kind of reductive presentation, let's say I'm not very good at that...
Anyway the film is developed with quiet an elegant sensitivity, without showing much,
most of what is "supposed to happen" is just suggested...
and yet I was not born in 1954, that it was a scandal when it came out doesn't surprise me...
You have to remember that before the mid 60, the sense of decency was quiet rigorous, and that a lot of topics were "tabu" !
At the extreme opposite of what is happening now, in most what is called "the advanced or civilized world".
Back to the film : I enjoyed it a lot..
The acting of the three protagonists have the proper tones...
With that psychological study of human nature, about the discovery of love/hate relations,
the right touch on every thing, Autant-Lara made a beautiful and elegant film.
May be not a masterpiece, but not very far away !
8,5 would be more appropriate, but for what it is : 10/10 certainly too generous, but who likes doesn't count !
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eyes in the head of a poet Orson Welles