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	Beau Serge, Le (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Le Beau Serge follows the story of Francois, a young man who returns to his home town after twelve years, who finds that the town is dying.
		Serge has both a wife and a mistress who is at one point Francois girlfriend; at the same time, Serge's wife becomes morally attached to Francois.
		Minimal scenes such as Serge exiting his house are accompanies by percussion that sounds as if it were a harbinger of doom.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0051404 (507 words)

	Chabrol, Claude Criticism and Essays
		This film is considered the forerunner of the new wave, characterized by the use of unknown actors, low budget techniques, and the highly personal attitude of the filmmaker towards his work.
		Les Cousins concerns a relationship between two dissimilar cousins who are law students, and ends in murder.
		Les Biches, Le Boucher, and a number of his other films have starred Stéphane Audran, his second wife, in roles which are typically mysterious and doom-ridden.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/chabrol-claude (357 words)

	french new wave - september director of the month
		Although Le Beau Serge is generally considered the first official film of the Nouvelle Vague, that claim is debatable.
		The important thing is that Le Beau Serge was the first to make an impact on an international scale though it would soon be overshadowed by the success of Breathless, The 400 Blows, and Hiroshima, Mon Amour.
		Seen today, Les Bonnes Femmes is impressive for its subtle blending of documentary-like realism, macabre humor, and unsentimental compassion for a group of characters living on the margins of society.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /DIRECTOR_MONTH/00/09/chabrol.htm (994 words)

	Le beau Serge / Handsome Serge / Claude Chabrol / 1958 / film review
		His childhood friend, Serge, has become an alcoholic, trapped in a loveless marriage and given to bouts of violence and depression.
		One of the earliest of the French New Wave of films in the late 1950s/early 60s, Le Beau Serge has a rough and ready feel to it that gives it an edge of authenticity and emphasises the sadness without dipping into sentimentalism.
		At first we share his pity for the town people and the tragic Serge, who seems to have had a pretty raw deal, stuck in a secluded provincial town whilst François is set to become a man of the world.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Le_beau_Serge_rev.html (358 words)

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		Le Beau Serge is generally considered to be the first film of the French Nouveau Vague (New Wave) or, at least, the first to be completed.
		In Le Beau Serge, Brialy’s character is a city-boy who moves to a provincial town where he encounters an old childhood friend and country-boy played by Blain.
		After Le Beau Serge and Les Cousins, he appeared in Paris Belongs to Us (1960), A Woman is a Woman (1960), Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), the magnificent The King of Hearts (1966), The Phantom of Liberty (1974), La Nuit de Varennes (1982), and Queen Margot (1994).
	www.epinions.com /content_151927230084 (2107 words)

	Philippe de Broca - Films as Director and Co-Screenwriter/Screenwriter:, Other Films:
		A typical credit was Le Jardin des plantes (The Greenhouse), a chronicle of the warm and protective relationship between a little girl and her grandfather in the waning days of World War II.
		Le Jardin des plantes is a thematic throwback to Le Roi de coeur in that it may be interpreted as a statement about the folly of war.
		Le Bossu is set in the France of Louis XIV and charts the derring-do resulting from a faithful swordsman's rescue of an infant princess from the grasp of her sinister relations.
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-Co-Du/de-Broca-Philippe.html (1389 words)

	Cahiers du cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Claude Chabrol was the first of the young Cahiers du cinéma critics to direct a full-length film; Le Beau Serge, his semi-autobiographical debut, predates Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Godard's Breathless by a year, and is generally credited with being the first true nouvelle vague feature.
		François (Jean-Claude Brialy), a young Parisian theology student suffering from TB, returns to his native village and discovers that Serge (Gérard Blain), his talented and promising childhood friend, has become a drunkard and is trapped in a seemingly dismal marriage.
		Pierrot le fou abounds in explosive primary colours, Brechtian asides to the camera, abrupt shifts in tone and mood, and a characteristic catalogue of references: art, literature, advertising, politics, American culture, American cinema.
	www.cinematheque.bc.ca /cahiers.html (1362 words)

	le-beau-serge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		LE BEAU SERGE (1958) B/W 97m dir: Claude Chabrol
		LE BEAU SERGE concerns a young man, Francois, who returns to a provincial French village and takes up again with his childhood friend, Serge, who has fallen on hard times.
		LE BEAU SERGE received overwhelming critical approval of its use of non-professional actors, raw fl-and-white photography (masterfully executed by Henri Decae), and personal vision.
	yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/l/le-beau-serge.html (233 words)

	Claude Chabrol Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		CC: I had both Les Cousins and Le Beau Serge prepared at the same time, in fact; I had the idea for Les Cousins but I couldn't do it because it would have been too expensive.
		Le Beau Serge was economical, and it was good on the village, but the story was rather tricked up.
		When I did Les Bonnes femmes I knew someone who knew someone, and that someone knew Paul Jansen, and mentioned him to me. We met one day, he was exactly the same age as me, and he’d never written music for a film before.
	home.comcast.net /~chabrol/Chabrol-interviews.html (7539 words)

	World Cinema: Directors -- Claude Chabrol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		One of the stable of Cahiers du cinéma critics, Chabrol inaugurated the New Wave with Le Beau Serge (1957), Les Cousins (1958) and Les Bonnes Femmes (1960).
		The first is his work with his main star (and for a long time, wife) Stéphane Audran, especially Le Boucher (1970) and their superb "drama of adultery": La femme infidèle / The Unfaithful Wife (1969), La Rupture / The Breakup (1970) and Juste avant la nuit / Just Before Nightfall (1971).
		The second is Chabrol's dissection of the French bourgeoisie, which ranges from the incisive to the affectionate, usually in the thriller format.
	www.geocities.com /worldcinema/directors/chabrol.htm (301 words)

	Undercurrents: Neglected Works from the French New Wave
		A deeply felt drama that explores male friendship and commitment, Le Beau Serge is rich in details of provincial life.
		In many respects the narrative converse of the director’s previous film, Le Beau Serge, and featuring the same lead actors, Les Cousins is the story of a student from the provinces who comes to Paris to live with his sophisticated, bullying cousin.
		Zazie dans le Métro was Louis Malle’s brave attempt to find visual equivalents to the eccentric, jazzy syntax of Raymond Queneau’s novel through a wide array of cinematic devices: sight gags, trick shots, superimposition, slow motion, accelerated motion, and intertextual references.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/02mayjune/newwave.html (2915 words)

	Claude Chabrol
		For Sight and Sound, Le Beau Serge was “a film cut out with hatchet blows.” Again featuring actors Gerard Blain and Jean-Claude Brialy, Les Cousins (1959) traced the fortunes of a pair of Parisian students, one from the country, one from the city.
		Les Bonnes femmes closes with a young woman in a dance hall accepting an invitation to dance from a man whose face we do not see.
		Les Biches is often seen as the film in which Hitchcockian Chabrol; “an elegantly detached, ironically poised camera which reserves all judgement to itself”, as Combs put it, gave way to Chabrol's penchant for Lang's geometric play with narrative space.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/chabrol.html (2049 words)

	Claude Chabrol - Films as Director:, Other Films:
		Chabrol followed Le beau Serge, in which a city-dweller visits a country friend, with Les cousins, in which a country-dweller visits a city friend.
		Perhaps the most wholly successful film of this period is the infrequently screened L'œil du malin, which presents the most typical Chabrol situation: a triangle consisting of a bourgeois married couple—Hélène and her stolid husband—and the outsider whose involvement with the couple ultimately leads to violence and tragedy.
		In Le boucher, the butcher Popaul, who is perhaps a homicidal killer, attempts a relationship with a cool and frigid schoolteacher, Hélène, who has displaced her sexual energies onto her teaching of her young pupils, particularly onto one who is conspicuously given the name Charles.
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-Bu-Co/Chabrol-Claude.html (2997 words)

	"Le Beau Serge / Bitter Reunion" Film Review: Cinephilia - Australian Film & more
		Le Beau Serge / Bitter Reunion (Claude Chabrol, 1958)
		Chabrol's first film straddles the transition from Neo-Realism to Nouvelle Vague and evidences nostalgia for the brotherhood of man and features rather contrived principal protagonists in a characteristically French morality play.
		The final shot of the hysterical Serge is risible and the "new-born" metaphor embarrassingly unsubtle.
	www.cinephilia.net.au /show_movie.php?movieid=99 (97 words)

	Gerard Blain Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A boyish-looking lead of two early Claude Chabrol classics, "Le Beau Serge" (1958) and "Les Cousins" (1959), Gerard Blain made a credible transition to writing and directing in the early 1970s.
		The two Chabrol films established him: "Le Beau Serge/Handsome Serge" found him cast as Jean-Claude Brialy's drastically-changed school chum while in "Les Cousins/Cousins" he was Brialy's country relation.
		His work in the 80s included "Le Rebelle" (1980), but he received more notice for "Pierre et Djemilia" (1987), a tale set in a northern industrial town that focused on a the star-crossed relationship between a teenage Frenchman and the 14-year old Algerian with whom he falls in love.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/199687 (620 words)

	The French New Wave Films of Claude Chabrol from THE NEW YORK FILM ANNEX / NYFAVIDEO.COM
		Chabrol's stylishly perverse variation on the ‘country bumpkin in the big city’ story has a provincial student visiting Paris to attend school and live with his cousin.
		'Les Cousins' was one of the early French New Wave sensations and along with 'Breathless', 'The Four Hundred Blows' and 'Hiroshima Mon Amour', catapulted the movement to international recognition.
		A theology student, suffering from TB, returns to his native village to discover his talented childhood friend, Serge who has become a hopeless alcoholic and is estranged from his pregnant wife.
	www.nyfavideo.com /content/cat-CHABROL.htm (254 words)

	Le Beau Serge \| MTV MOVIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Le Beau Serge was the first film of French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol.
		Here he visits childhood friend Serge (Gerard Blain), and is appalled to find how far Serge has plummeted into alcoholism and self-pity.
		Highly influential in the French New Wave movement of the 1950s, Le Beau Serge has something very special to say about the care and nurturing of friendship, especially one that has dimmed with distance and time.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/20142/moviemain.jhtml (344 words)

	Claude Chabrol Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A tragic, rural drama shot in fl-and-white, "Le Beau Serge" helped define the New Wave of filmmaking that would posit the "auteur," or director, as key creator of his or her cinematic work.
		Chabrol immediately followed "Le Beau Serge" with the equally dark and cruelly ironic "Les Cousins/The Cousins" (1959), a decadent tale of Parisian student bohemians.
		Both "Les Biches/The Girlfriends" (1967) and "La Rupture/The Breakup" (1970), though not strictly thrillers, explored the director's signature themes of obsession and compulsion.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/199231 (1187 words)

	Review, buy Drama: The Crucible, Le Beau Serge, Eric Rohmer - Moral Tales Collection, Beauty and the Devil, The Devil, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Chabrol's consideration of that idea would naturally deepen and become more complex over the years (brilliantly in 1969's La Femme Infidele and Le Boucher), but at this career flashpoint it is a little overstated and obvious in religious allusions.
		Still, Le Beau Serge is an engrossing film with no shortage of dramatic momentum.
		Cowriter and director Serge Bourguignon adopts a fairy-tale tone for both the central bond between Pierre and Cybele as well as the oddly harsh, uncaring social environment that inevitably condemns their union.
	bestvhs.com /drama3 (2001 words)

	Beau Serge, Le (1958) - Channel 4 Film review
		Cited as being the first film of the nouvelle vague, Chabrol's story concerns a young man François (Brialy) returning to hometown to convalesce after illness, having spent more than 10 years away.
		While the depressing surroundings have changed little, they have affected the people he left behind, especially his friend Serge (Blain), a once promising man now trapped in a loveless marriage and reduced to alcoholism.
		The men are presented as mirror images of each other, and of duality and fate are themes Chabrol would explore to greater effect at other points in his career.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=100932 (164 words)

	French 389A: French Film
		Les Amants, 1958; Zazie dans le métro, 1960
		Le Beau Serge, 1958; Les Cousins, 1959; Les Bonnes Femmes, 1960
		Les 400 coups, 1959; Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player), 1960; Jules et Jim, 1962
	web.uvic.ca /french/courses/french389a/films-newwave.htm (292 words)

	Claude Chabrol: Biography, Filmography, Film Reviews
		Chabrol started out as a film critic for the well-known magazine Les Cahiers de Cinéma and directed his first feature in 1958, LE BEAU SERGE, which is considered to be the first film of the Nouvelle Vague.
		Le Beau Serge (1958; dir, scr; aka Bitter Reunion)
		Les Folies Bourgeoises (1976; dir, coscr; based on the novel Le Malheur Fou by Lucie Faure; o.t.
	www.cultmovies.info /directors/chabrol/chabrol.html (755 words)

	The Flower Of Evil \| The A.V. Club
		Having kicked off the French New Wave with 1958's Le Beau Serge, 72-year-old Claude Chabrol, the movement's most overtly Hitchcock-influenced director, has worked steadily and prolifically in the decades since.
		Always a cool touch, Chabrol has lately outgrown even the slightest Hitchcockian impulse to "play the audience like a piano." Instead, he's moved in the opposite direction, intent on making the audience aware of all the notes he's not going to play.
		Even more perverse than 2000's Merci Pour Le Chocolat, which at least hung on a deeply sinister lead performance by ice queen Isabelle Huppert, Chabrol's new anti-thriller The Flower Of Evil denies all traditional sops to suspense, refusing to play around in its own sensationalist slop.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/17245 (438 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Film Listings
		The Flower of Evil is French director Claude Chabrol's 50th movie, and in his long career (which began in 1958 with one of the first films to herald the French New Wave, Le Beau Serge) he has made many marvelous movies.
		(See Les Bonnes Femmes, Les Biches, The Butcher, La Cérémonie, or The Swindle for just a few examples of Chabrol working in top form.) However, The Flower of Evil is one of Chabrol's lesser works — which is not to say that it is a bad movie, just one of the director's more routine efforts.
		He returns to the home of his father Gérard (Le Coq) and stepmother Anne (Baye), who has become involved in local politics during his absence and is currently running for mayor.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gbase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:186151 (550 words)

	Le Beau Serge
		Il y retrouve son ami Serge qui, de son mariage avec Yvonne, a eu un enfant trisomique et a sombré dans l'alcool.
		Dans la famille des comédies dramatiques champêtres, je demande Le Beau Serge.
		Le cinéaste français Philippe de Broca, auteur notamment de "L'Homme de Rio", du "Magnifique" et du récent "Vipère au poing", est décédé ce vendredi 26 novembre à l'âge de 71 ans.
	www.allocine.fr /film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=4138.html (336 words)

	Le Beau Serge Film Review - Time Out Film
		Le Beau Serge Film Review - Time Out Film
		As mirror images of each other, the two men reflect the interest in Hitchcockian themes of transference later elaborated in Chabrol's work, but here expressed rather too overtly in terms of Christian allegory (a transference not so much of guilt as of redemption).
		Shot entirely on location in the village of Sardent (where Chabrol spent much of his childhood), it presents a bleak, beautifully observed picture of provincial life, later revisited to even more stunning effect in Le Boucher.
	www.timeout.com /film/67492.html (123 words)

	BAM : Brooklyn Academy of Music
		One of the poster-boys for the French New Wave, Jean-Claude Brialy became a star through his work with Chabrol.
		The deliciously cynical Les Cousins (filmed right after Le Beau Serge) reflects on two students in Paris: one who does everything right and fails miserably, and another (Brialy) who succeeds in life through charm and trickery.
		Deep in Latin America, a motley crew of European expatriates accepts the impossibly dangerous job of driving two trucks full of nitroglycerin across hundreds of miles of bumpy jungle roads.
	www.bam.org /film/series.aspx?id=90 (1146 words)

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