Le grand Meaulnes (1967)
(The Wanderer)
Country: FR
Technical: col/scope 110m
Director: Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Cast: Brigitte Fossey, Jean Blaise
Synopsis:
A pupil at a small country school is in awe of a tall, mysterious newcomer, and witnesses his falling in love with a girl from a rich property nearby when they abscond to go to a party.
Review:
The most banal of storylines, whose poignant recollection of distant memories was its charm in literary form, here gets the full cinema treatment: widescreen, psychedelic optical effects, elliptical narration, cross-cutting of flashbacks. The whole film is shot in a kind of soft-focus twilight and shot through with a sense of melancholy and loss. If you like evocations of sunsets and shafts of light piercing autumn leaves this must be one of the most beautiful films ever made.
(The Wanderer)
Country: FR
Technical: col/scope 110m
Director: Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Cast: Brigitte Fossey, Jean Blaise
Synopsis:
A pupil at a small country school is in awe of a tall, mysterious newcomer, and witnesses his falling in love with a girl from a rich property nearby when they abscond to go to a party.
Review:
The most banal of storylines, whose poignant recollection of distant memories was its charm in literary form, here gets the full cinema treatment: widescreen, psychedelic optical effects, elliptical narration, cross-cutting of flashbacks. The whole film is shot in a kind of soft-focus twilight and shot through with a sense of melancholy and loss. If you like evocations of sunsets and shafts of light piercing autumn leaves this must be one of the most beautiful films ever made.
(The Wanderer)
Country: FR
Technical: col/scope 110m
Director: Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Cast: Brigitte Fossey, Jean Blaise
Synopsis:
A pupil at a small country school is in awe of a tall, mysterious newcomer, and witnesses his falling in love with a girl from a rich property nearby when they abscond to go to a party.
Review:
The most banal of storylines, whose poignant recollection of distant memories was its charm in literary form, here gets the full cinema treatment: widescreen, psychedelic optical effects, elliptical narration, cross-cutting of flashbacks. The whole film is shot in a kind of soft-focus twilight and shot through with a sense of melancholy and loss. If you like evocations of sunsets and shafts of light piercing autumn leaves this must be one of the most beautiful films ever made.