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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.
Sep 30, 2023 · Synopsis: Pale and fragile Pierre (Gerard Philipe), a wan and dispirited young man, is driven to return to the gloomy seaside hotel where he grew up, but is unable to escape the nightmarish events of his recent past, any more than he can escape the almost incessant rainstorms which sweep the nearby beaches.
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.
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 (Gérard Philipe) arrives as a hotel guest.
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.
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- Darbor Films, Dutch European
- Yves Allégret
Watchlist. NEW. An orphan is abused by an inn owner and he returns years later. Content collapsed. Lesser-known than it should be, at least in the US, Yves Allegret’s melancholy 1949 French noir ...
- Drama
SYNOPSIS. 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.
