Et Satan conduit le bal (1962)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Grisha Dabat

Writers:

Grisha Dabat (writer)
Roger Vadim (writer)

Release Date:

28 October 1963 (Denmark)

Cast

Jacques Perrin	...	Ivan
Catherine Deneuve	...	Manuelle
Henri-Jacques Huet	...	Jean-Claude
Françoise Brion	...	Monica
Bernadette Lafont	...	Isabelle
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze	...	Éric
Jacques Monod	...	Monsieur Klaus
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Patricia Karim

Also Known As:

And Satan Calls the Turns (International: English title)
Satan Leads the Dance (International: English title) (literal title)

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Cocinor

Satan calls the tune

That's what the title means;but don't let it fool you.There's nothing satanic here ,simply we are treated ,so to speak ,to the delights of the sub-Nouvelle Vague.

One of the great historians of the FRench Cinema,Jacques Lourcelles,wrote that the old cinema of the fifties needed a cure;but he quickly added that the cure was worse than the disease.

It's really the N.W. in all its horror:a vague detective novel plot (when I read the name of Roger Vadim as the screenwriter in the credits ,I knew it was all up!) and interminable conversations between young people (youth cult was a permanent feature of the N.W.)who 've got nothing to do but contemplate their navel and talk about their inflated egos in desirable mansions on the Côte D'Azur.Jacques Perrin and Catherine Deneuve teamed up for the first time .I'm almost sure it's not a film they are proud of (were it only for the ridiculous ending):they were to make two other movies together :" Les Demoiselles De Rochefort" and mainly the wonderful "Peau D'Ane" ,both by Jacques Demy,one of the worthwhile N.W. directors.

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"Vacances Portugaises" by Pierre Kast (1962)

"L'Eau A La Bouche" Jacques Doniol-Volcroze (1959 ).Volcroze appears in "Satan Conduit Le Bal" as Eric.