Typical French story of the sixties of last century, a mixture of romanticism and realism this time shown through beautiful very sentimental lyrics (it's a musical after all). A very simple love story full of encounters and disenchantments anyway. It's well told in images and dialogues and of course Catherine Deneuve is so beautiful... But that mother of hers (role done by Anne Vernon) spoiled her romance with her greed and conventional ideas. And the war in Algeria contributed no less to it too.
A good movie indeed and if it isn't a masterpiece it's only because the story is too simple and unsophisticated.
A good movie indeed and if it isn't a masterpiece it's only because the story is too simple and unsophisticated.