This film is available either on DVD+R or as a direct download in MP4 format. Please make your selection above.
In French with English subtitles. Widescreen.
Michel is a young man who works as a trainee operator in television, a temporary job before his military service. He meets and becomes friendly with two young women, Liliane and Juliette, aspiring actresses who lack the talent to land roles in anything greater than mediocre TV ads. The three friends share a holiday in Corsica, which will be Michel's last break before being drafted into the French army, most probably to fight in the war in Algeria.
Adieu Philippine is Jacques Rozier's first film and probably the one film which captures most vividly the essence of the French New Wave. It is a film that exudes the New Wave mentality in every scene, every shot. Out-Godarding Godard with its frequent jump-cutting and introverted, self-referential humor, the film is charged with an energy and sense of daring that seems to be the sheer embodiment of Truffaut and Godard's vision of the 1960s cinematic revolution. It is inexplicable that a film which encapsulates so fully the spirit of the French new wave should be so overlooked nowadays.
