Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide, internationally released as A Few Hours of Sunlight and A Little Sun in Cold Water, is a 1971 French film directed Jacques Deray adapted from the novel of Françoise Sagan.[1] The title quotes the poet Paul Éluard.
| Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide | |
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| Directed by | Jacques Deray |
| Written by | Jacques Deray Jean-Claude Carrière |
| Starring | Claudine Auger Marc Porel Judith Magre Nadine Alari André Falcon Barbara Bach Bernard Fresson |
| Music by | Michel Legrand |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Synopsis
editIn Limoges, Nathalie Silvener, a married woman falls for Gilles, a depressed and brilliant Parisian journalist, himself in a relationship with a model.
Casting
edit- Claudine Auger : Nathalie Silvener
- Marc Porel : Gilles Lantier
- Judith Magre : Odile
- Nadine Alari : Gilda
- André Falcon : Florent
- Barbara Bach : Héloïse / Elvire
- Bernard Fresson : Jean
- Jean-Claude Carrière : François
- Gérard Depardieu : Pierre
- Marc Eyraud : Monsieur Rouargue
- Jacques Debary : Fairmont
- Guido Mannari : Thomas
- Mireille Perrey
Reception
editAccording to Cahiers du cinéma, the film is one of the most personal works of Deray.[2] Le Nouvel Observateur referred to it as "un petit film démodé comme le petit roman de Sagan" (i.e., "a little film which is old-fashioned in the same way the little novel by Sagan is").[3] Time Out was very critical, calling it "fatuous" and saying "Porel gives one of the most boring, suburban, asexual performances imaginable".[4] DVD Talk called it "dated and dull".[5]
The novel
editIt is based on a 1969 book by Françoise Sagan. BSCNews calls it "a superb novel", praising Sagan's "simple and poetic" style.[6]
References
edit- ^ Clarke Fountain, Un peu de soleil dans l'eau, The New York Times.
- ^ Cahiers du cinéma, issues 581-585, Éditions de l'Étoile, 2003, p.58.
- ^ Le nouvel observateur, Collection 1976, p.27.
- ^ "Un Peu de Soleil dans l'Eau Froide". Time Out. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
- ^ Ordway, Holly E. (December 24, 2002). "A Few Hours of Sunlight (Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide)". DVD Talk.
- ^ "Françoise Sagan : un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide". BSC News. 29 July 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2013.