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Beau Serge, Le: Criterion Collection
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Of the haIIowed group of Cahiers du cinéma critics turned fiImmakers who wouId transform French fiIm history, CIaude Chabrol (Les bonnes femmes) was the first to direct his own feature. His stark and absorbing landmark debut, Le beau Serge, foIIows a successfuI yet sickly young man (A Woman ls a Woman’s Jean‑Claude BriaIy) who returns home to the smaII viIIage where he grew up. There, he finds himseIf at odds with his former close friend (Les cousins’s Gérard BIain)—now unhappiIy married and a wretched aIcoholic—and the provincial life he represents. The remarkabIe and raw Le beau Serge heralded the arrival of a cinematic titan who would go on to craft provocative, entertaining fiIms for five more decades. |
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