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Une si jolie petite plage (English titles: Such a Pretty Little Beach and Riptide) is a French drama film shot in black-and-white, directed by Yves Allégret and released in 1949. The film stars Gérard Philipe, Madeleine Robinson and Jane Marken. The film is set on the Channel coast of northern France, in a drab and depressing small seaside ...
Sep 30, 2023 · by Ted Davis. Original Title: Une si jolie petite plage Also Known As: Riptide Directed by: Yves Allegret Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Such a Pretty Little Beach is dark and dreary and ever so gentle, gracefully combining postwar fatalism with a deep sensitivity that makes it both memorable and immensely effective. Starting with a very noir feel, the film opens with the arrival of an unknown, dourly handsome young man (Gérard Philipe, who often looks like a more delicate Kirk Douglas) at a seaside town .
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Jun 11, 2015 · The Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films presents Such a Pretty Little Beach. Pierre, a young and disillusioned man, arrives at a small hotel in a seaside town in northern France. In the cold, driving rain of the resort's off-season, he wanders its deserted beach haunted by his past. His…
Léonide Azar. Madeleine Robinson, Gérard Philipe, Jean Servais, André Valmy, Jane Marken, Paul Villé, Yves Marthel, Gabrielle Fontan. T he main character of Yves Allégret’s Une si jolie petite plage (US: Such a Pretty Little Beach) is the gloom: the rain never ceases and the gray never lightens in the little seaside town where Pierre ...
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end ...
Une si jolie petite plage (English titles: Such a Pretty Little Beach and Riptide) is a French film shot in black-and-white, directed by Yves Allégret and released in 1949. The film stars Gérard Philipe, Madeleine Robinson and Jane Marken. The film is set on the Channel coast of northern France, in a drab and depressing small seaside town being deluged by incessant rain. The film noir ...
