Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Germany, Italy
Why tonight?
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
- jazz
- sanatorium
- incest
- shoplifting
- 1950s
- boy scout
- resort sex
- mother son relationship
- teenage protagonist
- bastille day
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Lea Massari
Clara Chevalier
Benoît Ferreux
Laurent Chevalier
Marc Winocourt
Marc Chevalier
Fabien Ferreux
Thomas Chevalier
- Daniel Gélin — Charles Chevalier
- Michael Lonsdale — Father Henri
- Ave Ninchi — Augusta
- Annie Savarin — Cook
- Gila von Weitershausen — Freda, prostitute
- Micheline Bona — Aunt Claudine
- Henri Poirier — Uncle Léonce
- Liliane Sorval — Fernande
- Jacqueline Chauvaud — Hélène
- Corinne Kersten — Daphné
- René Bouloc — Man at Bastille Day party
- Directed
- Louis Malle
- Written
- Louis Malle
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 220 ratings
- Studio
- Marianne Productions, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Vides Cinematografica, Nouvelles Éditions de Films
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.
