아름답고 작은 해변 (Such A Pretty Little Beach - Une si jolie petite plage , 1949)








프랑스, 네덜란드 / 91분 / 1949 

감독 : 이브 알레그레
 

출연 : 마델라인 로빈슨, 제라르 필립
 


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A country priest on some banal errand cycles past a man walking in the rain to his doom, and then waves to a pair of village matrons, as relevant and as useful to the other rain-soaked pedestrian as the umbrellas held by the two women.

Savage irony, withering subversion, and desolation mark the rain-sodden angst of a young man’s end.

What is respectable is rotten, beauty masks filth; the melancholy song of a plaintive chanteuse from a record is a conspiracy of decadence and low greed. Eve is a woman of a certain age in mourning with a hunger for youthful sex and a penchant for cheap sentimentality. Lucifer is a lyricist and stool-pigeon in a grubby search for the jewels of a dead woman. Respectability is a travelling salesman who buys postcards of cemetery monuments for his son’s collection.

Truth and beauty are not poetry, but the simple and unaffected concern of one troubled soul for another. A woman caressing the brow of a condemned man in a desolate shack on the beach of perdition. The eve of the last day, two men work on a car, a murderer helping a mechanic, both strangers yet angelic comrades.

Solidarity meeting fate head-on. A last desperate attempt by the killer to redeem the child he was before and still is ? lost in the sordid machinations and cruel exploitation of bourgeois hypocrisy.

The apotheosis of poetic realism and film noir, not on the dark streets of Los Angeles, but in a decrepit consumptive ville on the French coast. This is the true trajectory of noir released from the shackles of the studio enterprise: treacherous mud and dull clouds leading to a desolate beach of lost youth. Death the only escape ? sur une si jolie petite plage.