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Happy New Year

1973 · 115 min

A wistful, elegant caper that drifts between charm and regret, watching love and crime play out in patient, sunlit flashback.

Directed by
Claude Lelouch
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Starring
Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gérard
Overview
Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.

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Directed by
Claude Lelouch
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Starring
Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gérard
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How it feels

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Tone
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • crime
  • betrayal
  • loyalty
  • freedom
Places
  • big city
  • sea
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour4
Realism7
Romance7
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, crime, drama, romance
Directed by
Claude Lelouch
Written by
Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
Starring
Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gérard, André Falcon, Mireille Mathieu, Lilo, Claude Mann, Frédéric de Pasquale
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
115 min
Country
France, Italy
Languages
French

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