La remarcable y cruda El bello Sergio marcó la llegada de un titan cinematográfico que seguiría creando películas provocativas y entretenidas durante cinco décadas más.

You can’t get much closer to ground zero when it comes to the French New Wave than this first film by Claude Chabrol. Already suggesting a fascination for the Hitchcockian doubling motif that would be developed in his later work, Le beau Serge is a beautiful—if prickly—portrait of provincial life.