L'amour avec des si (1962)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Claude Lelouch

Writers:

Release Date:

4 December 1964 (Finland)

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Guy Mairesse	...	Robert Blam
Janine Magnan	...	L'auto-stoppeuse
Jean Franval	...	Un policier (as Franval)
Richard Saint-Bris	...	Le commissaire (as Saint-Bris)
France-Noëlle	...	La patronne de l'hôtel
Jacques Martin	...	Le journaliste
Jean Daurand	...	Le patron du relais routier (as Daurand)
Bernard Papineau		(as Papineau)
Mosin
Joëlle Picaud	...	La victime du bois
Lyonnais
Jacqueline Morane		(as Morane)
Rita Maiden	...	La servante du restaurant

Also Known As:

Avec des si...
In the Affirmative (International: English title)

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16

Company:

Films 13

Goofs:

Factual errors: Some of the scenes were shot at the Channel coast near Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais and the main character is wrong when he says "The Americans landed here". The Allied forces were expected to land there in 1944 but instead chose Normandy, some 250 km from there. However, the old German bunkers belonging to the Atlantic Wall, as well as some rare footage of the actual landing intersected into the film are real.

Soundtrack:

Je

Early Lelouch.

Lelouch says that this is his third film, made at the point where he considered giving up, after two failures. Only the accident of it being sent to a festival in Stockholm where it was hailed by Ingmar Bergman kept him at it.

It is a piece of passable interest. The performances are self conscious and the cut price handling shows but it retains attention for showing it's director to be a co-conspirator with the Nouvelle Vague, complete with sustained car driving shots and a departure from conventional film form. Token plot concerns the police search for an escaped crazy.

It is not hard to see the director of Chat et Le Souris, Rendez Vous and Il y a des jours... et des lunes at work here.