Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his many business trips, Henri indulges in a few amorous escapades, which provide a welcome change from the tiresome daily routine his bigoted wife locks him into. One fine day, Henri decides to drop everything and live on love and fresh water. He ends up in Pont-Aven, where he meets Émile, a local painter imitating Gauguin, with whom he shares his drinking and other feminine attractions.
- virgin
- beach
- painting
- priest
- portrait
- traveling salesman
- underage sex
- portrait painting
- pre-teen
- chambermaid
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jean-Pierre Marielle
Henri Serin, umbrella representative and painter
Claude Piéplu
Pilgrim / Peddler
Jeanne Goupil
Marie, maid
Dolores McDonough
Angela, frivolous young Quebec woman
- Romain Bouteille — Vicar
- Andréa Ferréol — Mrs. Licquois, client in the portrait
- Bernard Fresson — Émile, professional painter
- Martine Ferrière — Sister of the pilgrim / peddler
- Gisèle Grimm — Mrs. Serin, Henri's wife
- Louison Roblin — Merchant of the first shop
- Dominique Lavanant — Marie Pape, prostitute in Breton costume
- Nathalie Drivet — Ida, waitress
- André Chaumeau — Obsequious shopkeeper of the “Nathalie” store
- André Lacombe — Painter from Pont-Aven
- Directed
- Joël Séria
- Written
- Joël Séria
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 93 ratings
- Studio
- Trinacra Films, Coquelicot Films, Orphée Arts
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
