Une Si Jolie Petit Plage (Riptide) 1949 - The French title translates as 'A pretty little beach' - let me assure you this is as savage as irony gets - the landscape here is as far from pretty as it's possible to get - muddy, rainy, windswept - hell on earth. As you might expect from a post war French noir, as outside, so within. We're talking serious angst here as our antihero wrestles with his past and lack of a future. A local orphan mirrors his fate. Doom X 2. Unbearable right? Well, actually no - the French blu-ray I picked up (be warned, it's pricy) looks incredible and the film spins a real spell right up to its amazing last shot. Highly recommended.
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