Sundays and Cybele (1962)

Original title

Cybèle ou les dimanches de ville d'Avray

Directed by

Serge Bourguignon

Genre

drama film, Christmas film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 66 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A shell-shocked war veteran forms an unusual friendship with a lonely young girl. Their bond develops over Sundays in a Paris suburb.

melancholicpoignantquietslow-burntendersadintimateunsettling

What happens

Sundays and Cybèle is a 1962 French drama film in Franscope, directed by Serge Bourguignon. Its original French title is Cybèle ou Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray (Cybèle or Sundays in Ville d'Avray), referring to the Ville-d'Avray suburb of Paris. The film tells the tragic story of a neglected young girl who is befriended by an innocent, but psychologically damaged, veteran of the French Indochina War. Bourguignon wrote the screenplay with Antoine Tudal, and he and Bernard Eschasseriaux, the author of the novel upon which the film is based, are credited with the dialogue. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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