The Season for Love

1961 [FRENCH]

Comedy / Drama / Romance

IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 120 120

Plot summary

Sylvain, a suave, witty player as well as an accomplished writer and Genevieve met 10 months ago. He wanted a serious relationship for the first time so they moved to the country so they could be together and he could write.

Director

Pierre Kast Photo
Pierre Kast

Top cast

Édouard Molinaro Photo
Édouard Molinaro as New Male Secretary
Hubert Noël Photo
Hubert Noël as Hubert
Alexandra Stewart Photo
Alexandra Stewart as Sandra
Françoise Arnoul Photo
Françoise Arnoul as Geneviève
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944.08 MB
1280*768
French 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 42 min
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1.71 GB
1800*1080
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles gr   us   es   hr   it   ro  
24 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Mozjoukine

Ah the sixties!

You can see nouvelle vague creeping into this French A feature. There are straight cuts between scenes, unlike the fades to black which still invade even L'EAU A LA BOUCHE and the characters are younger than the suit, tie & evening wear casts of earlier films but it's still French actors dropping every name from Sagan to Corneille and changing partners. The amount of skin we get for our money is very tame against the Vadim films of the day.One of those writers who can't write we get in VINCENT PAUL FRANCOIS & LES AUTRES or THE SHINING is paired up with the so fetching Francoise Arnoul while former statesman Gelin, with his side burns whited, is running his empire and bedding half the French movie crumpet of the day - include Alexandra Stewart introduced on horse back with a fanfare, while wife Prévost does likewise with the fellers. She acts everyone else off the screen.There's lots of verbalizing about love etern and a surprise ending, which anticipates JULES ET JIM, but this one is mainly a nostalgia trip for those who enjoyed films with writing on the bottom forty years back Yes there is a reference to Easter Island for followers of Pierre Kast.
Reviewed by pbczf 7 / 10

Love in the off season

This film is an interesting mix of ideas from Goethe's 'Elective Affinities' ('Die Wahlverwandtschaften') and the French Enlightenment set in and around Ledoux's amazing Saline royale at Arc-et-Senans. The focus is on two couples and their relationships. One couple, the duke and his wife, live on their estate and are involved in its running as well as in politics. The other couple, a writer and his wife, have escaped life in Paris and have, improbably, made a home in part of the Saline royale. Two events set things in motion: the couples meet and the writer's wife finds that for the last ten months he hasn't written a word on his second book.The film is predictably heavy on dialogue, but is also full of beautiful shots of beautiful people in the beautiful landscape, both built and natural. The music by Georges Delerue is a catchy but odd homage to early-Baroque.The ending is as satisfying as an eighteenth-century novel's: the good are rewarded, the bad punished, and the two couples have realigned in surprising but highly satisfactory ways.
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