Les jeux de l’amour
France,
1960, 87 min
Shown in 1960
CREDITS
- dir
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Philippe de Broca
- prod
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Claude Chabrol, Roland Nonin
- scr
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Gèneviève Cluny, Philippe de Broca, Daniel Boulanger
- cam
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Jean Penzer
- mus
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Georges Delerue
- cast
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Jean-Pierre Cassel, Gèneviève Cluny, Jean-Louis Maury, Robert Vattier, Claude Chabrol, Maria Pacôme, Pierre Repp, François Maistre
- prod co
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Ajym Films
- source
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AJYM Production, Films Around the World Release
- premiere
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U.S. Premiere
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COMMENTS
Gèneviève Cluny in person.
OTHER
Froth, charm and gaiety sparkle on the crest of the French New Wave. High spirits and comic enjoyment make a welcome entry as 27-year-old director Philippe de Broca achieves spontaneity from a love story written by its leading actress, Gèneviève Cluny, 26. She plays the young girl living with an irresponsible painter. He is happy in his present uninhibited state but she longs, at least, for a child to weld the affair. When an old friend seems to enjoy the idea of usurping his place with an offer of marriage, the comedy makes an elegant whirl. It won the Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear award in 1960.
FACTOID #134
The 1986 San Francisco International’s Discovering Mike Leigh was the director’s first retrospective in the U.S. According to the San Francisco Examiner, Festival Artistic Director Peter Scarlet compared the then-unknown Leigh to Yasujiro Ozu before his work had achieved international recognition; while the latter director had been considered ’too Japanese’ for global audiences, Leigh was considered ’too British.’
