Claude and Isabella met on a beach one summer and got easily involved. But while he has dreams of settling down with a family, she just wants to have fun. When Isabelle becomes pregnant, Claude is advised by both families to marry but things get more complicated when he meets an English woman.
Direction
Berri directs himself with unflinching self-critique.
Acting
Wiener's Isabelle radiates infectious, doomed freedom.
Director
Claude Berri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Claude Berri cast himself as the indecisive protagonist in his feature debut, essentially dramatizing his own generational anxieties.
The film captures post-May '68 France wrestling with shifting sexual mores—old-world family pressure colliding with newfound liberation that men embraced more than women.
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