La Chamade (film)
| La Chamade | |
|---|---|
 Original film poster |
|
| Directed by | Alain Cavalier |
| Produced by | Maria Rosaria |
| Written by | Alain Cavalier Françoise Sagan |
| Starring | Catherine Deneuve Michel Piccoli |
| Music by | Maurice Leroux |
| Cinematography | Pierre Lhomme |
| Editing by | Pierre Gillette |
| Distributed by | Les Artistes Associés (United Artists) |
| Release date(s) | 1968  France1969  United States |
| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | France / Italy |
| Language | French |
La Chamade (US title: Heartbeat) is a 1968 film directed and written by Alain Cavalier based on the 1965 novel by French playwright and novelist Françoise Sagan. The film stars Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli.
[edit] Plot summary
Like many of Sagan's novels, this is a story of lost love. A married woman and a poor artist begin an affair an eventually move in together, but the woman cannot get used to his life, his working-class existence. She leaves her lover to return to her marriage with a man of means.
Ostensibly, she is rejecting her lover because she feels stifled by his position in society. But the class differences are metaphor for the quality of the love, with a woman deciding to be with a man who loves her for who she is rather than as an object of affection, merely the focus of a selfish love. She wants to be with the one who doesn't ask her to change.
[edit] External links
- Heartbeat at Yahoo Movies!
- La Chamade at the Internet Movie Database
- La Chamade at AllRovi
 |
This article related to a French film of the 1960s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
