Le Beau Serge
- Gérard Blain: Serge
- Jean -Claude Brialy: François Baillou
- Michèle Meritz: Yvonne
- Bernadette Lafont: Marie
- Claude Cerval: Priest
- Jeanne Pérez: Madame Chaunier
- Edmond Beauchamp: Glomaud
- André Dino: Michel
- Michel Creuze: Baker
- Claude Chabrol: La Truffe
The Disappointed (English Alternative title: The beautiful Serge ) is the first film by Claude Chabrol from the year 1958.
Action
After more than a decade François Baillou returns to his home village and recognizes that, although the people but otherwise has not changed much. His old friend Serge, whose child with Down syndrome died in the meantime, is addicted to alcohol. He has become an angry and quarreling with yourself person who refuses to see their life difficulties in the eye. François is now trying to help him and find out what is the cause of the completely different behavior.
Background
The film is considered the first work of a new film style of the Nouvelle Vague ( New Wave ). This style was represented by some young French film directors who were previously most active in journalism and protested in this way against the often simple and predictable structure of the commercial film in France.
Claude Chabrol, who had previously worked for the Cahiers du cinéma, turned his first work in eight weeks in the community Sardent in the French department of Creuse. It was financed by his first wife Agnès by the heritage of their grandmother. Due to the unexpected success of the film he felt obliged to continue making films.
Reviews
" The first feature film by Claude Chabrol [ ... ] portrays remarkable milieu close economic and moral squalor of a remote village in the province of Creuse. It thus combines the less convincing portrayal of a friendship conflict between a student on convalescent leave and a married young motorist who is addicted to alcohol. "
" Claude Chabrol's directorial debut convinced by the excellent cast and tightly staged portrayal of the harsh living conditions in provincial France. "
Awards
- International Film Festival of Locarno 1958: Award for best director Claude Chabrol on
- Jean Vigo Prize 1959: Prize for the best film of Claude Chabrol