Recent Viewing: the New Wave
I recently dipped into the French New Wave to watch a few films I’d previously missed – Claude Chabrol’s first two features, Le Beau Serge (1958) and Les Cousins (1959), and Agnes Varda’s Le Bonheur […]
Review: Le Beau Serge (1958)
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michèle Méritz, Bernadette Lafont, Edmond Beauchamp,
Gérard Blain
Jean-Claude Brialy
Michèle Méritz
Bernadette Lafont
Edmond Beauchamp
Plot: François returns to his village after a long absence. He finds his friend Serge who has married Yvonne, and has developed an alcohol problem after the death of their stillborn child. Serge has become an angry, bitter figure not unlike the roles of James Dean, refusing to face reality and adulthood and François must help him.
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