In the French Style (1963)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 105 minuten
Country:
United States / France
Directed by: Robert Parrish
Starst: Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker and Philippe Forquet
IMDb score:
6,6 (416)
Releasedate: 18 September 1963
In the French Style plot
"Anywhere but Paris, she would have caused a SCANDAL!"
Christina James is a liberal American girl who lives in Paris. She comes into contact with Guy, who tells her that he is a student at the university, where he is studying engineering. But when he schedules an appointment at a cheap hotel, he has to confess that he is actually only 16 years old. Christina breaks up with him and has a series of brief and unsatisfactory affairs with various men until she meets Walter Beddoes, a journalist with an unstoppable appetite for alcohol. Despite the fact that his job requires him to travel abroad a lot, Christina is very much in love with Walter. Therefore, her father tries to persuade Christina to return to the United States, but she refuses.
Actors and actresses
Christina James
Walter Beddoes
Guy
Mr. James
Bill Norton
Baron Edward de Chassier
John Haislip
Stephanie Morell
Patrini
Clio Andropolous
Reviews & comments
Movsin
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The French title of the film is "A la Française," and even more so than the English title, the film leads one to expect a carefree, lighthearted movie.
That is not the case at all; it has a psychological slant, although the film seems to want to underscore the contrast between a certain puritanical America and a decadent atmosphere in the French capital. (They would have been better off giving it the title "In the Paris Style")
The first part of the film is lyrical, romantic, idyllic, and naive, and stands in contrast to the adult that follows.
The whole thing is a very decent film based on two stories by Irwin Shaw, "A Year to Learn the Language".
Fragments of the Nouvelle Vague style and an excellent Jean Seberg.
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blurp194
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Irvin Shaw.
It is an open question how much of his stories would have remained if it had been someone other than Jean Seberg to bring them to life in the French style.
You might superficially think that this is a meaningless and superficial film—and perhaps it is. But on the other hand, this film is more Andy Warhol than the Factory ever was, more Jacques Tati than M. Hulot, and more breathless than Godard himself. And more important than all that, Jean Seberg is at her most beautiful in this film, and to see her genuinely and deeply unhappy is like nails on a chalkboard, so convincingly does she play it. Has an actress ever come close to that? After 5, 6, or 7 thousand films, I really can't think of one.
It is a shame that the story is so sentimental and empty; you wonder what could have been made of it if it had been about something. But even Irvin Shaw could never have expected in his wildest dreams that someone like Seberg would act out his stories. It must have been like winning the lottery every time for ten years.
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