Le Beau Serge

Le Beau Serge (1959)

After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.

Date of release
1959-01-10
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (98)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Drama
Director
Claude Chabrol

Casting

Interesting facts

Le Beau Serge is a 1958 French film directed by Claude Chabrol. It has been cited as the first product of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave, film movement. The film is often compared with Chabrol's subsequent film Les Cousins, which also stars Gérard Blain and Jean-Claude Brialy.

Production

At one point, Chabrol had intended for Les Cousins, rather than Le Beau Serge, to be his first film project, but, due to that film's Paris setting, it would have been twice as expensive to film. Le Beau Serge was filmed in Sardent, where Chabrol, whose mother was from the village, often spent childhood summers with his grandmother and lived during the war years.

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