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Bookmark this pageUne Si Jolie Petite Plage (1948)
Director: Yves Allégret
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From Time Out Film Guide
A late bloom for the Carné-Prévert brand of poetic realism, set in a wintry beach resort in Normandy where a young man (Philipe), returns to the scene of his childhood after involvement in a crime of passion in Paris (he has just killed the singer he was seduced by and ran away with to escape his orphanage background). Undergoing much soul-searching torment, focused by the presence of a sinister stranger (Servais) as well as by speculation and gossip about the crime centering on the nosy hotel proprietress (Marken), he finds some temporary warmth in the love of the bedraggled chambermaid (Robinson). An exercise in unrelieved gloom, much admired at the time, it now looks much too studied; despite sound performances and Henri Alekan's impressively moody evocation of the deserted, permanently rain-swept landscape, it emerges as rather a bore.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Yves Allégret
Producer: Emile Darbon
Cast: Gérard Philipe, Madeleine Robinson, Jane Marken, Jean Servais, Julien Carette full cast
Duration: 90 mins
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