Le Beau Serge

Le Beau Serge French pronunciationl bo s , meaning Handsome Serge is a French film directed by Claude Chabrol, released in 1958. It has been cited as the first product of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave, film movement. The film is often compared with Chabrols subsequent film Les Cousins, which also features JeanClaude Brialy and Grard Blain.

Chabrol had originally intended to shoot Les Cousins first, but due to its Paris setting, it would have been twice as expensive to film. He chose instead to shoot in Sardent, a village where his mother lived before moving to Paris and where he often spent the summer with his grandmother. The film was shot over nine weeks in the winter of 19578 on a budget ofmillion old francs. It was financed from his first wifes inheritance. The film initially ran tohours andminutes, though Chabrol cut a great deal of quasidocumentary material to reduce the running time, a decision he later regretted.

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