Fresh
The director tackles his great theme-the puncturing of bourgeois moralism, albeit at a price-with a joyful, quasi-Nietzschean derision.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Overview
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.
Director and cast
- Claude Chabrol Director
- Gérard Blain as Charles
- Jean-Claude Brialy as Paul
- Juliette Mayniel as Florence
- Guy Decomble as Le libraire
- Geneviève Cluny as Geneviève
- Michèle Méritz as Yvonne
- Corrado Guarducci as Italian Count Minerva
- Stéphane Audran as Françoise
- Paul Bisciglia as Marc
- Jeanne Pérez as La femme de ménage
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Concise progression, fine technical aspects, and the look at innocence destroyed by the profane keeps it absorbing, despite the slightly pretentious treatment at times.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
A fine, richly detailed tableau of student life in Paris, and Chabrol's first statement (in his second film) of his sardonic view of life as a matter of the survival of the fittest.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
M. Chabrol has more skill with the camera than he has with the pen, and his picture is more credible to the eye than it is to the skeptical mind. But it is not the less overwhelming.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
This is Chabrol's second film, and its subtle development of character points toward the dense structures of his later films with their reluctance either to condemn or extol without reservation.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
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