My good friend Didier is right on the button in his review of this gem. It does date from a magic time when the only things that counted were good, solid screenplays, charismatic actors and directing that was a combination of the workmanlike and the inspired. Try telling that to the New Waveleteers, that small group of intellectual pseuds who contrived to set French Film Making back half a century. Fortunately sanity prevailed and within half a dozen years the French film industry was back in pole position. Georges Lacombe, one of a group of fine French journeyman directors turned to the novel by Paul Very and got him to adapt it for a stunning combination of rom-com and psychological time-travel drama. In only his fourth film Gerard Philipe is ideal casting for the troubled young protagonist with a bad case of deja vu. Roumanian actress Jany Holt provides the love interest and Pierre Brasseur as Philipe's brother completes the triangle. Do your best to catch this one.
Review of Le pays sans étoiles
