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Bookmark this pageLe Petit Matin (1970)
Director: Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
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From Time Out Film Guide
A coyly maudlin romance set in Occupied France during WWII, all about an adolescent girl, much given to riding dreamily around on a white horse, and her love affairs - of varying degrees of intensity and fulfilment - with said horse, a childhood playmate who turns out to be gay (Baltauss), and a handsome young German soldier (Carrière), also much addicted to galloping about. Always a prettifier, Albicocco drenches the whole thing in a pale green tint, so that even shots of Jewish deportees look like chocolate-box tops. There's a fulsome Francis Lai score to match the decoratively swirling mists prevailing in the area, and despite a would-be tragic ending, the whole thing is marshmallow through and through.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Producer: Paul Cadéac d'Arbaud
Cast: Catherine Jourdan, Mathieu Carrière, Madeleine Robinson, Jean Vilar, Christian Baltauss, Margo Lion full cast
Duration: 115 mins
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