Le départ
Jerzy Skolimowski / BE, 1967 / 93 min.
An inspirational example to the first group of Film Academy students of the sixties. Skolimowski’s story of a trainee hairdresser who’s mad about motor racing has great pacing, is rebellious and free and features figurehead of the nouvelle vague Jean-Pierre Léaud in the lead role.
Trainee hairdresser Marc (Léaud) wants nothing more than to drive fast – preferably while taking part in a rally in his boss’ Porsche. But his boss departs just before the start of the rally, taking his Porsche with him. Marc has to find another car to race in, and his girlfriend Michèle comes to his aid. What follows is a feverish, at times comical, odyssey through Brussels in search of a new car, leading to a met bungling denouement.
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Director
Jerzy Skolimowski
Production year
1967
Country
BE
Original title
Le départ
Length
93 min.
Language
French
Subtitles
ENG
Part of
Dutch New Wave
They were young and wanted to counter what they saw as the staid, middle-class Dutch cinema of the fifties. Adriaan Ditvoorst, Pim de la Parra, Frans Weisz, Wim Verstappen, René Daalder and Nikolai van der Heyde were captivated by the free, unembellished Italian neorealist style and the French nouvelle vague; they wanted to make films about life itself, with true-to-life characters, like those of Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
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