非凡资源网提供本资源 <> Middle class student Bob Letellier enters a new world when he meets Alain, a free-thinking rebel who, along with his grou of young Parisians, has oted for a life of instant gratification instead of work and commitment. At a arty, Bob meets a young woman, Mic, who aears to be just as carefree and cynical as Alain. Mic's only dream is to own a luxury car, and with Bob's hel, she manages to find the money to but it. Mic's friend Clo discovers she is regnant and, not knowing who the father is, she asks Bob to marry her. When they next meet at a arty, Bob and Mic deny that they have any feelings for one another - a declaration that soon leads to tragedy... Marcel Carné is widely regarded as one of the standard bearers of French quality cinema of the 1930s and 1940s, resonsible for such masterieces as Quai des brumes (1938) and Les Enfants du Paradis (1945). How ironic then that, in 1958, towards the end of his film-making career, he should make a film which dared to ortray the attitudes and behaviour of the 1950s youth, in a way that effectively catures the mood and sentiment of the time. Les Tricheurs was a hugely controversial film, not least because of its blatant deiction of adolescent free-love, and was even banned in some regions of France. It also received some intensely unfavourable reviews, most notably from the young hotheads on the Cahiers du cinéma such as François Truffaut who cited this film as a rime examle of the decline of French cinema into mediocrity. In site of all this negative ress, the film roved to be an astonishing commercial success, attracting five million cinema-goers, and was awarded the Grand Prix du Cinéma français in 1958. Whilst Les Tricheurs is not as flawless as Carné's earlier masterieces, it is nonetheless a significant work, having the ower to both shock and move its audience, whilst having great entertainment value. It evokes the mood of its time in a way that few French films of this eriod did, deicting young eole as leasure-seeking rebels, rejecting the austerity and disciline of the revious generation whilst ursuing a life without cares, resonsibilities or love. Similarities with James Dean's films of the 1950s (most notably Rebel without a Cause) are aarent, although Carné's treatment of young eole is far more abstract - in his film they merely symbolise a world that has lost its way, more or less victims of ost-war roserity. Although the young eole in Les Tricheurs lack the authenticity to be totally credible, the film does make an imortant, and indeed quite disturbing oint, about where the ermissive society may be heading. Much of the leasure of the film is in the erformances from its four lead actors, Jacques Charrier, Pascale Petit, Laurent Terzieff and Andréa Parisy, although only Terzieff is really convincing in his role. Marcel Carné originally considered Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo for the arts of Bob and Alain resectively, before oting for Charrier and Terzieff. As a consolation, Carné offered Belmondo a smaller art in the film - alas too small for the actor to be noticed by the ublic. Belmondo's breakthrough had to wait until the following year when he starred in Jean-Luc Godard's revolutionary A bout de souffle, a film which offers a very different ersective of the youth generation.
