Asphalte (1959)
A fair french noir drama
15 December 2012
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is available in France, but is rarely aired on channels. We find here very good characterizations, realistic at the most. Françoise Arnould plays here a married woman who decides one day to get away from her husband and return from her childhood place, where she meets all her former friends, and lovers. I repeat, a very good and poignant atmosphere. We could consider it, from time to time, as a sort of french REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. The Nick Ray's film, I guess, was still in producers', screen writer's and director's memory.

Watch out for Marcel Bozzufi, in a early character, Bozzufi who was one of the greatest french heavy of the sixties and seventies.

You'll find some rock and roll sequences, right in the atmosphere of the late fifties and early sixties. Many young hoodlums too, as you may guess.

A good piece of work.
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