Amour in St. Tropez (1961)

Amour in St. Tropez: Directed by Marcel Moussy. With Marie Laforêt, Jacques Higelin, Pierre Michaël, Stéphane Audran. The minute her parents leave, Anne-Marie drops out of school for an eight-day vacation in St-Tropez with her friend Jean-Paul. They are soon caught up in the whirlwind of St-Tropez life. Jean-Paul falls into the arms of a very wealthy woman while Anne-Marie goes off with a young man she met on the road. After a few misadventures, both friends realize they are in love with each other and meet in St-Tropez.

“The Nouvelle Vague in all its horror!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTake a trendy place (is there a hipper place than Saint Tropu0026#39;?),beautiful young people (although a long-haired Marie Laforet is much more attractive ),who on holiday have nothing to do but contemplate their navel ,and a very serious existentialist concern:will Anne-Marie join the packu0026#39;s degenerate ways and lose her precious virginity?The unfortunate girl is still dreaming of a romantic love at the dawn of sexual u0026quot;liberationu0026quot;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eApart from this,thereu0026#39;s no screenplay at all and ,except for maybe sociologists and die-hard highbrows,nothing to attract people who like being told a story.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMarie Laforêt had starred just before in the classic thriller u0026quot;Plein Soleilu0026quot; aka u0026quot;purple noonu0026quot; and youu0026#39;d better choose René Clément u0026#39;s work instead if you do not want French cinema to make you run away;while continuing her actress career,Laforêt became a u0026quot;folku0026quot; Chanteuse covering songs such as u0026quot;go tell it on the mountainu0026quot; or u0026quot;no chargeu0026quot; .u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJacques Higelin ,who plays her boyfriend ,was essentially a singer,but unlike Laforêt ,a creative one.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs for me ,my only reward for watching such a dud is to see Claude Chabrol in a cameo (a tongue-in-cheek interview) and his favorite actress/soon-to-be-wife Stephane Audran as a macho painteru0026#39;s lover.”