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Appointment in Bray

Original title: Rendez-vous à Bray
  • 1971
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
533
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Appointment in Bray (1971)
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In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter p... Read allIn 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. Th... Read allIn 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful but mute woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is... Read all

  • Director
    • André Delvaux
  • Writers
    • Julien Gracq
    • André Delvaux
  • Stars
    • Anna Karina
    • Mathieu Carrière
    • Roger Van Hool
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    533
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • André Delvaux
    • Writers
      • Julien Gracq
      • André Delvaux
    • Stars
      • Anna Karina
      • Mathieu Carrière
      • Roger Van Hool
    • 5User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 3 nominations

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    Anna Karina
    Anna Karina
    • Elle (la servante)
    Mathieu Carrière
    Mathieu Carrière
    • Julien Eschenbach
    Roger Van Hool
    Roger Van Hool
    • Jacques Neuil
    Bulle Ogier
    Bulle Ogier
    • Odile
    Boby Lapointe
    • L'Aubergiste
    Pierre Vernier
    Pierre Vernier
    • Monsieur Hausmann
    Luce Garcia-Ville
    • Mme Nueil
    Nella Bielski
    • Un Visage (la femme du train)
    Pierre Lampe
    • Le Soldat
    Jean Aron
    • Joseph, le projectionniste
    Léonce Corne
    • Le Garde-Vue
    Martine Sarcey
    • Mme Hausmann
    Jean Bouise
    Jean Bouise
    • Le rédacteur en chef
    Hugues Quester
    Hugues Quester
    • Director
      • André Delvaux
    • Writers
      • Julien Gracq
      • André Delvaux(uncredited)
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      Featured in De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen archieven (2005)

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    Between reality and fantasy
    Delvaux was one of those directors who kept on working in his own creative world, seemingly oblivious to the pressures of the commercial world. He got his start by playing the piano for screenings of silent films in Brussels in 1950, just as the hero does here. Then he did TV documentaries before making his first feature, The Man Who Had his Hair Cut Short. Like Un Soir, Un train that preceded it, Rendez-vous a Bray is very lovely to look at (cinematography by the great Ghislain Cloquet) but it unfolds in a sort of glacial calm that leaves me cold.

    Because the tone is so restrained, the acting so diminished in expression, the story never really engages the viewer. Mathieu Carriere was never my idea of a romantic lead (he was thinner than David Bowie), and Anna Karina, trying to start her career again after the breakup with Godard, just does the minimum, with no help from Delvaux. There are hints of a Jules et Jim type of triangle, with pixyish Bulle Ogier as the girl who would interrupt the passionate friendship of Carriere and van Hool, but it isn't fully developed. Delvaux is just too fixated on those beautiful interiors, and nothing, not even the carnage of the war--it's 1917--can get him out of them.
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    • Jan 14, 2003

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 22, 1971 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Belgium
      • West Germany
    • Languages
      • French
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Rendezvous in Bray
    • Production companies
      • Ciné Mag Bodard
      • Parc Film
      • Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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