Watch: Cybèle ou les dimanches de ville d’Avray 1962 123movies, Full Movie Online – After killing a child when his plane crashes in a Vietnamese village, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until he meets a young girl who has been dumped by her father at a boarding school. Posing as her father, Pierre contrives to meet the girl every Sunday, to play with her and perhaps recover his memory. The innocent friendship is misread by nearly everyone, even people who know Pierre well. A classic of old French art films..
Plot: The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.
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Still potent, 40 years later
A remarkable film with an astonishing capacity to touch your heart and open your mind. A refreshingly original story that doesn’t lapse into exploiting potentially “adult” themes.Hardy Kruger succeeds in taking you with his character into his child like view of the world (caused by shell shock in Indochine). Patricia Gozzi is a rare child actress whose performance is completely free of the usual self-conscious effort found in recent films. Entire cast is strong.
The black and white cinematography is amongst the best I’ve ever seen. The camera seems remarkably aware of textures and temperatures. Some images are reminiscent of Ansel Adams’ silver gelatin prints. Don’t miss any opportunity to see this rare gem of a film. The characters, stories and images will follow you for a long, long time. It will make you wish that Director Serge Bourguignon had a much longer filmography.
sweet, bitter, beautiful
This film is first and foremost beautiful. The beauty of the B&W cinematography is appalling. The composition is perfect. The delicate range of grays achieve a silky texture that has an almost tactile feeling. The music by Jarré is beautiful. The child actress Patricia Gozzi is nothing but angelical in her blooming beauty.The story is simple; a former war pilot with war trauma and amnesia and an abandoned little girl meet by chance and desperately cling to each other so as to find company and salvation. The child becomes the more mature of the couple, the adult goes along innocently and follows her counsel, advancing inexorably to his own destruction. The well intended (well, more or less well intended) adult world does not understand the delicate platonic relation, reads it as sinful and deviant, and proceeds to destroy it. The final scene is one of the most painful and desolate in the history of cinema, even though its beauty is unforgettable.
The weakness of the movie is that it has not survived well the end of the sixties. Its aesthetics is too connected to the conventions of the time. The human relations are not real enough for our time. There is a degree of rigidity, idealization and oversimplification that does not allow the film to stay alive, as is the case with the masterpieces of Fellini and Bergman. However, this does not detract the movie from its serene beauty, its evocative power, and all the nostalgic pain of a lost love.
Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 51 min (111 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Serge Bourguignon
Writer Serge Bourguignon, Antoine Tudal, Bernard Eschassériaux
Actors Hardy Krüger, Nicole Courcel, Patricia Gozzi
Country France, Austria
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 3 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Laboratoires Franay Tirages Cinematographiques (LTC), Paris, France
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman Double-X 5222, Plus-X 5231)
Cinematographic Process Franscope
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman 1302)