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Le Repos du Guerrier (1962)

Romance | 102 minutes
2,80 22 votes

Genre: Romance / Drama

Duration: 102 minuten

Alternative titles: Love on a Pillow / Warrior's Rest / Il Riposo del Guerriero

Country: France / Italy

Directed by: Roger Vadim

Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein and James Robertson Justice

IMDb score: 5,5 (824)

Releasedate: 5 September 1962

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Le Repos du Guerrier plot

Genevieve is a typical inward-looking woman eager to become a real estate agent and have a good life. Instead, she goes to a small village to receive an inheritance. She accidentally walks into the wrong hotel room. Just in time. The alcoholic Renaud (Robert Hossein) she finds there tries to kill herself by taking sleeping pills. Genevieve saves his life and soon the two have a strange relationship.

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Geneviève Le Theil

Renaud Sarti

Pierre Leroy

Madame Le Theil - la mère de Geneviève

Le brigadier

L'infirmière

L'inspecteur de police

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In Le repos du guerrier, Bardot falls for a real sixties character: a nihilistic bohemian, who expects nothing from life and doesn't want to put anything in it. This attitude is in a sense destructive, but at the same time it has something disarming. (Godard also introduces such characters, the writer Julio Cortázar does the same, for example in Rayuela). It is obvious from the outset that the relationship between the two leads to many painful moments, even for those involved, but they cannot avoid it. Fortunately, the characters sometimes explain their motives to each other or to third parties, this seems to be no longer allowed these days, but it does help to follow the protagonists in their actions.

There is little air in the drama from Le repos du guerrier. Vadim does not shy away from the grand gesture. The sets in particular are almost lavish. The crowded apartment from the beginning, then the fancy jazz party and finally the streets of Florence with a closing scene set in a dilapidated church (which I think is a bit overdone, but well, maybe it was intended that way). We do not see Bardot here as a play-girl, but as the grumpy and melancholy woman as she was portrayed in Le mepris. This attitude fits her like a glove, partly thanks to her brooding glance.

All in all, I thought it was pretty strong. With a better soundtrack this could even have been a small gem, but unfortunately there is a kind of generic string music mounted underneath that doesn't add any positive emotion to this typically French, typical 60s character film.

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