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Un amour de jeunesse

1977 · 94 min

A quiet, reflective French period drama that drifts between past and present like a half-remembered dream.

Overview: Normandy 1850. A stagecoach drives along a road in the middle of the countryside. Inside, the passengers are all asleep except two men who are talking. Suddenly the coach stops: an axle has just broken. When one of the two men leans out of the window to see what is going on, his gaze lingers on the front a provincial abode, which seems to upset him. He soon starts remembering facts that took place forty years earlier...

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
love
aging
grief
Places: countryside
road trip
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	5
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama, tv movie
Directed by: Raymond Rouleau
Starring: Héléna Manson, Dominique Marcas, Madeleine Ozeray, Sylvain Joubert, Jean Rougeul, André Thorent, Philippe Rouleau, Maurice Teynac
Runtime: 94 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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