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Mood:
- HumorousCleverStylizedTouchingWitty
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Plot:
- Unlikely CoupleYoung LoversComing of AgeCrumbling MarriageLovers on the RunCouple RelationsInfidelityLove Affair more...
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Genres:
- ComedyRomanceForeignNew WaveDrama
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Time/Period:
- 50s
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Style:
- EpisodicMultiple Stories
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Look:
- B&W
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La française et l'amour, 1960
French
Italy, France
Profile of La française et l'amour
La française et l'amour can be described as humorous, clever, and witty. The plot revolves around lovers on the run, a breakup, and lovers reunited. The main genres are foreign, comedy, and romance. In terms of style, La française et l'amour is New Wave, involves multiple stories, and is episodic. In approach, it is realistic. It takes place in the 1950s. Visually, La française et l'amour is black and white.
Summary of La française et l'amour
Seven separate short segments explore the "stages" of a woman's emotional life, including comic vignettes that deal with a girl's nascent sexual curiosity (which is quickly repressed), coping with adolescent virginity, marriage and infidelity, and an amiable divorce soured by dueling attorneys. Early work from Belmondo before he became a New Wave icon in Godard's "Breathless."
Details
| Language: | French |
| Country: | Italy, France |
| Release date: | 27 February 1961 |
| Runtime: | 143 min |
Cast and Crew
as Mme. Bazouche
as Eugene Bazouche
as Dr. Dufieux
as Lulu
