Le Beau Serge (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 20, 2011
- Originally Released: 1958
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jean-Claude Brialy & Gérard Blain | |
Performer: | Michele Meritz & Bernadette Lafont | |
Directed by | Claude Chabrol | |
Produced by | Claude Chabrol | |
Director of Photography: | Jean Rabier |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B- --
Chabrol didn't work out his film-making kinks until his next pictures.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Part mock-neorealist homoerotic foxtrot, part obsessively symmetrical Cahiers du Cinéma analysis of Hitchcock's I Confess
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CinePassion
An important new French director, Claude Chabrol, is unveiled in this pic.
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Variety
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Le Beau Serge received overwhelming critical approval of its use of non-professional actors, raw black-and-white photography (masterfully executed by Henri Decae), and personal vision.
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TV Guide
It presents a bleak, beautifully observed picture of provincial life, later revisited to even more stunning effect in Le Boucher.
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Time Out
...A grown-up tone and well-utilized rural locales...
USA Today
Rating: 3/4 --
evokes a somber and deeply felt sense of shared humanity
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Q Network Film Desk
Product Description:
For his first feature, French director Claude Chabrol revisited his hometown of Sardent to film the story of a cosmopolitan city student, François (Jean-Claude Brialy), who returns home only to discover that his childhood friend Serge (Gérard Blain) has fallen into a state of destitution. Shot in a style heavily in debt to then-emerging Italian neorealism with its use of nonprofessional actors and documentary-like footage of daily village life, LE BEAU SERGE is also replete with melodrama and morality. Coming home to recover from an illness, François is immediately confronted with the spectacle of his old friend, a onetime successful architect, drunk and disorderly, severely depressed after the death of his deformed child. Intent on rescuing Serge, François's attempts have the opposite effect, starting a chain reaction of unfortunate events culminating in tragedy. The stark realism of Henri Dacae's sublime black-and-white cinematography mixed with Chabrol's use of heavy Catholic symbolism produce an emotional parable of great depth as the struggle between the two friends turns into a battle for redemption.
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- Sales Rank: 81,456
- UPC: 715515086318
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