La Chamade (1968)
- Directed by
- Alain Cavalier
- Genre
- drama film, romance film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 26 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young woman is torn between a wealthy older lover who provides comfort and a passionate younger man from a working-class background. She must choose between a stable life of luxury and the excitement of a riskier love.
romanticmelancholicbittersweetglamorousslow-burnearthyintrospectiveconflictedelegiac
What happens
La Chamade (also titled Heartbeat in English) is a 1968 romantic drama film directed by Alain Cavalier from a screenplay he co-wrote with Françoise Sagan, based on Sagan's 1965 novel. It stars Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli, with Roger Van Hool, Jacques Sereys, Philippine Pascal and Irène Tunc. The film follows a young woman (Deneuve) who finds herself torn between her older, wealthy lover (Piccoli) and a working-class man her own age (Van Hool). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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