Adieu Philippine (1962)

Recommended

France/Italy

Feature Film

Director: Jacques Rozier

Writers: Michèle O'Glor, Jacques Rozier

Cinematographer: René Mathelin

Composers: Jacques Denjean, Paul Mattei, Maxime Saury

Cast: Jean-Claude Aimini, Stefania Sabatini, Yveline Céry, Daniel Descamps, Vittorio Caprioli, David Tonelli

About to be shipped off to fight in the Algerian War, Michel, a young television camera technician, meets two attractive young girls, whom he begins to pal around with, a friendship/flirtation that soon sees the three of them (though they're occasionally joined by a fourth) heading off to a sun-drenched Corsica, as they await the inevitable adieu, in Rozier’s ramblingly entertaining picaresque tale, which makes up with charm and verve what it lacks in polish and refinement. Iain.Stott