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5.9/10   180 votes
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Director:

Alain Cavalier

Writers:

Françoise Sagan (novel)
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Release Date:

27 July 1969 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama | Romance more

Tagline:

The heart has many rooms, some filled, most empty.

User Comments:

Beautiful Deneuve and the compulsion and emptiness of living with too much leisure and wealth. more (7 total)


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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Heartbeat (USA)
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Runtime:

103 min

Country:

France | Italy

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:11 | USA:R


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Beautiful Deneuve and the compulsion and emptiness of living with too much leisure and wealth., 29 December 2003
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Author: Rod Evan from Amsterdam, Netherlands

Courtesy of MGM Movie Channel I was at last allowed to see one of the best popular films of 1968 in France. 'La Chamade'. This is a disgracefully neglected film which manages in a not too dissimilar way to Antonioni's 'Blow Up' to show the compulsion and emptiness of living with too much leisure and wealth.

Deneuve is at her most beautiful and along with 'Belle de Jour' this must be one of her more complex roles of the period. The extraordinary thing about the film is that the characters roam the bars and go to parties and chic restaurants and musical evenings seemingly oblivious to the political trauma that was happening in 1968.

If memory serves me right Sagan wrote 'La Chamade' before the events of May '68 and for all I know the film may have been completed before the month of May, but in hindsight the facts that we now know cast a long shadow over the lives of these beautiful people consumed by their own selfish desires. A small masterpiece.

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