1966 : in Nanterre and around (west Parisian suburb), hoodlums in black leather jackets or flight jackets wander in the streets, in "cafés", in "la zone" (nasty area) or in rock'n'roll balls. Very few work, so they steal and get in jail or reformatory.
Spoiler Spoiler : The girls they are looking for are just sexual objects, don't miss the scene in "la zone" with the boy leaving his girl to a friend with the gang watching from a metallic structure waiting for their turn. The rock'n'roll ball is a great sequence with boys and girls sitting around the dance floor with a group performing rock tunes, and when they play Be Bop A Lula, everything changes and the Squares from Neuilly politely disappear. You can also hear demos of future hits by Serge Gainsbourg.
The movie seems to follow the hoodlums wandering in the streets. Shot in documentary style in black and white with amateur actors and popular dialogues from street life, "Les Coeurs Verts" is a nasty underground movie (still unreleased in France) in the old streets around Courbevoie beginning in the sixties to get destroyed for building the business center La Défense. Definitely not a commercial movie but surely a major witness of its time. Some born bad fan might release it on DVD one day, Time Will Tell.
Spoiler Spoiler : The girls they are looking for are just sexual objects, don't miss the scene in "la zone" with the boy leaving his girl to a friend with the gang watching from a metallic structure waiting for their turn. The rock'n'roll ball is a great sequence with boys and girls sitting around the dance floor with a group performing rock tunes, and when they play Be Bop A Lula, everything changes and the Squares from Neuilly politely disappear. You can also hear demos of future hits by Serge Gainsbourg.
The movie seems to follow the hoodlums wandering in the streets. Shot in documentary style in black and white with amateur actors and popular dialogues from street life, "Les Coeurs Verts" is a nasty underground movie (still unreleased in France) in the old streets around Courbevoie beginning in the sixties to get destroyed for building the business center La Défense. Definitely not a commercial movie but surely a major witness of its time. Some born bad fan might release it on DVD one day, Time Will Tell.