Rendezvous in July (Rendez-vous de juillet) (1949)
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Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de Juillet has been credited as the first postwar European film to accurately depict the Continental "youth culture." Teenaged Lucien (Daniel Gelin) aspires to become a filmmaker, and to that end organizes his friends into a film unit. The young cineastes… More Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de Juillet has been credited as the first postwar European film to accurately depict the Continental "youth culture." Teenaged Lucien (Daniel Gelin) aspires to become a filmmaker, and to that end organizes his friends into a film unit. The young cineastes hope to make a journey into Africa, there to film an uncompromisingly realistic documentary. Amusingly, Lucien and his friends are shown to be rather ill-equipped for "real life," shuttling as they do between theatre classes, jazz bars and coffee houses. Also, Lucien will have to overcome some family problems before he can embrace the responsibilities of adulthood. The winner of a critics' award at the Cannes Film Festival, Rendez-vous de Juillet was released in the U.S. as Appointment with Life. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jacques Becker
- Written By
- Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
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Critic Reviews
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, Time Out
Allowing that the film's milieu and range of situations had not yet become hackneyed, Becker's characters are still very thin (the dreamer, the schemer, the cheeky comic relief), the tone rather uncertain.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Jacques Becker was one of the best French directors to emerge after the occupation, combining the elevated realism of Jean Renoir (for whom he'd worked as an assistant) with a flair for black comedy and caricature.
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, Film4
An interseting portrait of the period, it provides refreshing roles for a number of newcomers.
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Cast
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Daniel Gélin
as Lucien
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Bernard Lajarrige
as Rousseau
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Maurice Ronet
as Roger
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Nicole Courcel
as Christine
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Brigitte Auber
as Therese
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Louis Seigner
as Levase
- Jean-Louis Allibert
- Paul Barge
- Léon Bary
- Capucine
- Louisa Colpeyn
- Jacques Fabbri
- Lucien Mancini
- Philippe Mareuil
- Gaston Modot
- Colette Regis
- Paul Villé
- Pierre Tabard
- Robert Lombard
- Annie Noel
- Denise Peronne
- Pierre Trabaud
