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Mood:
- ContemplativeGloomyBleak
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Plot:
- Artist's LifeDealing With DeathHuman NaturePsychologicalRedemptionDestructive RelationshipTragic LoveAlcohol Abuse more...
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Genres:
- ForeignNew WaveDrama
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Time/Period:
- 50s
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- EuropeFranceVillage
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Le Beau Serge, 1958
French
France
Profile of Le Beau Serge
Le Beau Serge can be described as gloomy, contemplative, and bleak. The plot revolves around alcohol abuse, lovers reunited, and tragic love. The main genres are foreign and drama. In terms of style, Le Beau Serge is New Wave. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in a village. Le Beau Serge is located in France. It takes place in the 1950s.
Summary of Le Beau Serge
For his first feature, French director Claude Chabrol revisited his hometown of Sardent to film the story of a cosmopolitan city student, François (Jean-Claude Brialy), who returns home only to discover that his childhood friend Serge (Gérard Blain) has fallen into a state of destitution. Shot in a style heavily in debt to then-emerging Italian neorealism with its use of nonprofessional actors and documentary-like footage of daily village life, Le Beau Serge is also replete with melodrama and morality. Coming home to recover from an illness, François is immediately confronted with the spectacle of his old friend, a onetime successful architect, drunk and disorderly, severely depressed after the death of his deformed child. Intent on rescuing Serge, François's attempts have the opposite effect, starting a chain reaction of unfortunate events culminating in tragedy. The stark realism of Henri Dacae's sublime black-and-white cinematography mixed with Chabrol's use of heavy Catholic symbolism produce an emotional parable of great depth as the struggle between the two friends turns into a battle for redemption.
Details
| Language: | French |
| Country: | France |
| Release date: | January 1959 |
| Runtime: | 98 min |
Cast and Crew
as François Baillou
as Serge
