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Burning the candle at both ends, Jean-Louis Bras gives a heart wrenching performance as Film Noir teen loner Babar,whose touching feeling for Dan are wiped away by the sheer horror Bras puts in Babar's eyes,as he finds the gang to have left him in a Film Noir wasteland.Д«ased on American novel called 'Tomboy' ,which makes sense cause the leader of the pack is a girl who,like the precedent user pointed out ,resembled French pop singer France Gall.Daniele Gaubert would continue her career through the sixties,her most celebrated part was ' lonesome the she wolf' a failed attempt at making a female 'Diabolik'.Then she married ski champion Jean-Claude Killy and died from of cancer at an early age. Looking beautiful stepping out in a dress while pushing lines of clothes to the side, DaniГЁle Gaubert gives an eye-catching performance as Dan, (talk about spending ages coming up with a name) whose delicate appearance Gaubert links with a masculine confidence. Keeping the youthful rebellion bubbling under their skins,the writers give the gang raw deals stuffed with a rich Film Noir bitterness,that gives successful (and failed) robberies and a power play battle between the guys a moody brittleness. Cornering Babar with a stunning twist of the knife,the writers give the Film Noir an infectious teenage twist. Transferred from Hal Ellson's US novel 'Tomboy' the screenplay by CarnГ©/Jeanson and Rey take the unique choice of making Dan the leader of the gang,whose silent confidence the writers brilliantly run counter against the more dramatic actions from the boys. Nodding to James Dean with iconic white t-shirts, CarnГ© makes sure to keep the Film Noir mood intact,by looking high up at the sky and pouring busted nerves and misery on everything in sight.

Getting down to the ground with a magnificent shot covering an entire house, CarnГ© stubs the Film Noir grit with a poetic teenage Melodrama rage. Shot on 'the projects' getting built at the time, CarnГ© enriches the Film Noir with an earthy atmosphere spanning 'on the spot' outdoor locations chasing the gang with rapid-fire tracking shots across a screen that CarnГ© soaks in grain. View on the film: Backed by a thunderous score from Michel Legrand & Francis Lemarque,co-writer(along with Henri Jeanson and Henri-FranГ§ois Rey) director Marcel CarnГ© and cinematographer Claude 'nephew of Jean' Renoir strike operatic teen Melodrama with Film Noir grime. Dazzled by Jacques Becker's rise of the teenager in Rendezvous in July (1949-also reviewed),I decided that it was the perfect time to witness CarnГ©'s take on the juvenile delinquent. Learning about the film maker after choosing the Film Noir Le Jour se Leve (1939-also reviewed) for a viewing fest on titles in French cinema that were affected by the Nazi Occupation of France,I decided that it was time to take a close look at Marcel CarnГ©'s work.

So : not CarnГ©'s best, but not a shame at all, a lot could be happy for their all life if they could make that kind of movie. Dialogues are not as good as what CarnГ© used to do with Jacques PrГ©vert, but it is astonishingly modern sometimes. The image is a wonderful black and white (from Claude Renoir, nephew of Jean Renoir), there is a lot of great scenes.

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The soundtrack is not 'rock'n'roll', it's a quite classical symphonic music and this is interesting, the movie therefore is not the typical lost teenagers story. The life of great buildings is well described, there is a few very good characters (the others are not bad but not very well developed), the main actress (a former miss France) looks like France Gall (very famous singer some years later). In the movie, a gang of Paris suburbs is bored on Sunday and tries to make money by robbing. In France, Netherlands, Japan or the USA (and many countries), it happened eight years later : the youth conquered some power and didn't live like their parents did. The times were the ones of the birth of a strange animal called 'the teenager' : post-war youth didn't want to stay 'adults without rights', they wanted fun, and most of all, they didn't want to be like their parents. If it is true, it shouldn't make us forget the later movies of Marcel CarnГ©. It is well known that his movies done after world war II don't have the magic touch of the previous ones. 'quai des brumes', 'hotel du nord', 'le jour se lГЄve', 'les visiteurs du soir', 'les enfants du paradis'. Marcel CarnГ© is a legendary film maker : we owe him some of the greatest movies of all times.

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