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Le bel indifférent
Le bel indifférent
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1,156 Ratings

LE BEL INDIFFÉRENT

Directed by Jacques Demy
France, 1957
Short, Drama

Synopsis

A woman in a hotel room is waiting for her lover Emile to return. When he does, he makes himself comfortable on the bed to read his paper. She tells him that she is fed up with him, but he is indifferent to her rage. She accuses him of infidelity and threatens to cheat on him and leave him.

Synopsis

A woman in a hotel room is waiting for her lover Emile to return. When he does, he makes himself comfortable on the bed to read his paper. She tells him that she is fed up with him, but he is indifferent to her rage. She accuses him of infidelity and threatens to cheat on him and leave him.

Our take

In Le bel indifférent, Jacques Demy’s penchant for primary colors bleeds into a monologue of jealousy and rage. Here an expired romance hangs over a blood-red room like a ghost. Adapted from a one-act Jean Cocteau play, this hard-to-see film is compact in its length yet explosive in its impact.