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Du côté de Robinson (Les Mauvaises Fréquentations)

BAFICI 2009
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Year:

1963
Original Title:

Du côté de Robinson (Les Mauvaises Fréquentations)
País:

Francia 
Director:

Jean Eustache

Color:

B&W
Format:

35 mm
Duration:

42 min
Cast:
  • Aristide, Daniel Bart, Dominique Jayr
Production:
  • GUIÓN: Jean Eustache
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Philippe Théaudière

Synopsis

Anchored in the French New Wave, admired by Godard and Rohmer, picaresque and desperate, luminous and somber at the same time, the first short feature by Eustache proves that, as it has been said, "[his] greatness was evident right from the start." A character that prefigures, in his absurd arrogance, La Mamam et la putain's Alexandre, walks the streets of the Parisian suburb of Robinson with his best friend, in search of fun and trouble. Which is to say: women. Establishing the rigorous distance in the portrayal of youth and life on the streets that would be a constant in Eustache's subsequent films, his bad companies impress, in the words of Jean Douchet, "[by having] the best of connections: those of the masters of cinema."