Drama
Le Beau Serge
Avg rating 8.0 / My rating TBC
1958 · Directed by Claude Chabrol · With Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michèle Méritz
- French New Wave
- Art Cinema
- Auteur Cinema
- Melodrama
A young man who left a small village for Paris returns after years away and finds a place, and an old friend, that have changed in ways he did not expect. A quiet, black-and-white drama of friendship, guilt and provincial life, shot on location with a very small crew.
Film info
- Runtime
- 1h 38m · 98 min
- Format
- Black and white, standard flat frame, in French with subtitles. About 98 minutes.
- IMDb
- 7.1 / 10 (4,004 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 100% (critics)
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (audience, 98 votes)
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