Synopsis
Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who hang around outside the TV studio. Michel invites them in to watch, flirts with them both, and dates them separately and together. When Michel goes on a holiday to Corsica, just before he is drafted, the girls follow.
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Actors (16)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Unitec france, Rome-Paris Films
- Foreign production company : Euro International Film (EIA)
- Film exports/foreign sales : mk2 films
- French distribution : Antinéa
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producer : Georges De Beauregard
- Adaptation : Jacques Rozier
- Screenwriters : Jacques Rozier, Michèle O'Glor
- Dialogue Writers : Michèle O'Glor, Jacques Rozier
- Director of Photography : René Mathelin
- Music Composers : Jacques Denjan, Maxime Saury
- Assistant directors : Francis Cognany, Gabriel Garran, Philippe Laik
- Editor : Jacques Rozier
- Sound recordists : Maurice Laroche, Jacques Lebreton, Louis Perrin
- Foreign producers : Giuseppe Valenzano, Giulio Sbarigia
- Assistant Operator : Christian Guillouet
- Camera Operator : Jean Boffety
- Assistant editors : Annie Baronnet, Claude Barrois
- Sound Mixer : Jean Nény
- Still Photographer : Raymond Cauchetier
- Production Manager : Marin Karmitz
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Romantic comedy
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Italy)
- Production year : 1962
- French release : 25/09/1963
- Runtime : 1 h 46 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 23887
- Visa issue date : 24/09/1963
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
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About
Jacques Rozier is one of the lesser known of the Nouvelle Vague directors, and this, his first feature, is probably his best-known work. Using improvisation and a cinema verité approach, he endeavoured to bring a sense of realism to his stories, most of which, like this one, are concerned with the mixed up lives of teenagers.
Adieu Philippine is on the one hand, chaotic and fun, and is a landmark film in many ways; it is unfortunately, however, a bit sophomoric and Rozier's inexperience as a beginning director shows. On the one hand, some of the visuals are beautiful and perfectly pitched: the lyrical interludes between scenes, such as the two girls walking along a summery Paris street set to the rhythm of a tango, are nearly perfect. But often the soundtrack swings into the territory of the garish: too much pop, overly loud – you can barely hear the girls talking in the restaurant in a scene which should have been very naturalistic – and there are huge chunks of the movie, especially after they return from the ‘adventure’ hunting down the deadbeat producer – which seem badly edited and misplaced. What was up with that very long hula-esque dancing sequence with the two girls in the holiday camp, for example? It didn’t contribute to the atmosphere and seemed to me stylistically gratuitous, dull.
Overall, though, an enjoyable effort and impressive for a first feature film. There are some gorgeous mis-en-scene, somehow simultaneously imbued with both a kind of quiet reflectivity and a buzzing adolescent energy. The scene with the wasps on the pebble beach is lovely – Rozier is fantastic at capturing the naturalness and vibrancy of youth and at evoking a sense of real speech (although perhaps because much of the script was improvised). In any case, this is real youth, not a nostalgic rumination on youth. I’m not so sure I buy into the relationship between the two girls (they seem quite quick to become chummy with each other, for no particular reason, only moments after fighting bitterly over the same man), but perhaps their fickleness is a perfect fit for the kind of lovely, chaotic, capricious spirit of this film.
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