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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 ...
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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!
The 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. Unbeknownst to the locals and the inn keeper Madame Mahieu (Jane Marken) who accommodates him, Pierre was once a ward of the state who worked at the ...
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…