Released in a year ahead to the French New Wave landmarks
such as Hiroshima Mon Amour, The 400 Blows, and Breathless,
the first feature of another giant in the movement doesn't really
contain any innovativeness that the others show off. Rather, Le
Beau Serge expresses the modest respect to the directors of older
generations in France; especially there is an obvious similarity
between Le Beau Serge and Bresson's The Diary of Country
Priest. However, like the rest of French New Wave, the film's low
budget attitude loudly speaks the antithesis to the French
mainstream cinema, such as the works of Clement, at the point.
Relationships among main characters randomly oscillate
between friendship and hostility, don't develop, and go nowhere.
Consequently the story can't keep the audience's attention.
such as Hiroshima Mon Amour, The 400 Blows, and Breathless,
the first feature of another giant in the movement doesn't really
contain any innovativeness that the others show off. Rather, Le
Beau Serge expresses the modest respect to the directors of older
generations in France; especially there is an obvious similarity
between Le Beau Serge and Bresson's The Diary of Country
Priest. However, like the rest of French New Wave, the film's low
budget attitude loudly speaks the antithesis to the French
mainstream cinema, such as the works of Clement, at the point.
Relationships among main characters randomly oscillate
between friendship and hostility, don't develop, and go nowhere.
Consequently the story can't keep the audience's attention.