''Rendezvous at Bray'' (french: Rendez-vous à Bray) is a 1971 French-Belgian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
André Delvaux
André Albert Auguste Delvaux (; 21 March 1926 – 4 October 2002) was a Belgian film director. He co-founded the film school INSAS in 1962 and is regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema. Adapting works by writers such as Johan ...
and starring
Anna Karina
Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; September 22, 1940 – December 14, 2019) .
It was entered into the
21st Berlin International Film Festival
The 21st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June – 6 July 1971. The ''Young Filmmakers Forum'' (in 1987 renamed ''International Forum for New Cinema'') section was introduced at the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded ...
. Much of the film may be imagined by the characters and much is unexplained, leaving viewers to come up with their own interpretations.
Plot
Jacques, a composer serving as a fighter pilot during the
First World War
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, asks his friend Julien, a
Luxembourger
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Luxembour ...
working as a music journalist in
Paris
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, to meet him at Bray behind the front lines. His family's country house is there, looked after by a solitary housekeeper. Jacques has not arrived when Julien turns up and is let in by the beautiful but largely silent woman. While she prepares him dinner, he reflects on the ups and downs of his life in Paris before the war with the charming rich Jacques and his vivacious girl friend Odile. After showing him to a bedroom, the servant spends the night with him. In the morning, he rushes off to the railway station but does not board the Paris train. Something, we do not know what, impels him to stay.
Cast
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Anna Karina
Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; September 22, 1940 – December 14, 2019) as Elle (la servante)
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Mathieu Carrière
Mathieu Carrière (; born 2 August 1950) is a German actor.
Life
Carrière grew up in Berlin and Lübeck; he attended the Jesuit boarding school in Vannes, France, a school which had previously been attended by the director of Carrière's firs ...
as Julien Eschenbach
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Roger Van Hool
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as Jacques Neuil
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Bulle Ogier
Bulle Ogier (born Marie-France Thielland; 9 August 1939) is a French actress and screenwriter. She adopted the professional surname Ogier, which was her mother's maiden name. Her first appearance on screen was in ''Voilà l'Ordre'', a short film ...
as Odile
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Boby Lapointe
Robert Jean-François Joseph Pascal Lapointe (; 16 April 1922 – 29 June 1972), better known by his stage name Boby Lapointe (), was a French actor and singer, noted for his humorous texts, alliterationsSee the titles: ''Aubade à Lydie en do'' ...
as L'Aubergiste
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Pierre Vernier
Pierre Vernier (19 August 1580 at Ornans, Franche-Comté (at that time ruled by the Spanish Habsburgs, now part of France) – 14 September 1637, same location) was a French mathematician and instrument-inventor. He was the inventor and epony ...
as Monsieur Hausmann
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Luce Garcia-Ville as Mme Nueil
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Nella Bielski
Nella Bielski (1930s – 4 November 2020) was a Ukrainian-born French writer and actress.
Bielski was born in Ukraine in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and died on 4 November 2020 in Antony a suburb of Paris. She studied philosophy at Moscow Stat ...
as Un Visage (la femme du train)
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Pierre Lampe as Le Soldat
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Jean Aron
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People
* Jean (female given name)
* Jean (male given name)
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as Joseph, le projectionniste
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Léonce Corne
Léonce Charles Corne (18 March 1894 – 31 December 1977) was a French film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1931 and 1974.
Selected filmography
* ''The Girl and the Boy'' (1931)
* ''Luck'' (1931)
* ''The Premature Father'' (1933)
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as Le Garde-Vue
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Martine Sarcey
Martine Sarcey (28 September 1928 – 11 June 2010) was a French stage, film and television actress.Giguere pg. 37
Selected filmography
* '' Matrimonial Agency'' (1952)
* '' Méfiez-vous, mesdames'' (1963)
* '' The Thief of Paris'' (1966)
* '' ...
as Mme Hausmann
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Jean Bouise
Jean Bouise (3 June 1929 – 6 July 1989) was a French actor.
He was born in Le Havre. In the 1950s he helped to found Théâtre de la Cité, and was a player in the company. He entered films in the 1960s, and played a supporting roles in ...
as Le rédacteur en chef
References
External links
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1971 films
1970s French-language films
1970s German-language films
1971 drama films
Louis Delluc Prize winners
Films directed by André Delvaux
Films scored by Frédéric Devreese
1971 multilingual films
French drama films
Belgian drama films
French multilingual films
Belgian multilingual films
1970s French films
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