''Rendezvous at Bray'' (french: Rendez-vous à Bray) is a 1971 French-Belgian
drama film directed by
André Delvaux and starring
Anna Karina.
It was entered into the
21st Berlin International Film Festival
The 21st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June – 6 July 1971. The ''Young Filmmakers Forum'' (in 1987 renamed ''International Forum for New Cinema'') section was introduced at the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded ...
. Much of the film may be imagined by the characters and much is unexplained, leaving viewers to come up with their own interpretations.
Plot
Jacques, a composer serving as a fighter pilot during the
First World War, asks his friend Julien, a
Luxembourger working as a music journalist in
Paris, to meet him at Bray behind the front lines. His family's country house is there, looked after by a solitary housekeeper. Jacques has not arrived when Julien turns up and is let in by the beautiful but largely silent woman. While she prepares him dinner, he reflects on the ups and downs of his life in Paris before the war with the charming rich Jacques and his vivacious girl friend Odile. After showing him to a bedroom, the servant spends the night with him. In the morning, he rushes off to the railway station but does not board the Paris train. Something, we do not know what, impels him to stay.
Cast
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Anna Karina as Elle (la servante)
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Mathieu Carrière as Julien Eschenbach
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Roger Van Hool
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as Jacques Neuil
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Bulle Ogier as Odile
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Boby Lapointe as L'Aubergiste
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Pierre Vernier as Monsieur Hausmann
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Luce Garcia-Ville
Luce may refer to:
People
* Luce (name), as a given name and a surname
* Luce (singer)
Places
* Luče, a town in Slovenia
* Luce, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
* Luce Bay, a large Bay in Wigtownshire in southern Scotland
* Luce C ...
as Mme Nueil
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Nella Bielski
Nella Bielski (1930s – 4 November 2020) was a Ukrainian-born French writer and actress.
Bielski was born in Ukraine in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and died on 4 November 2020 in Antony a suburb of Paris. She studied philosophy at Moscow Stat ...
as Un Visage (la femme du train)
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Pierre Lampe
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...
as Le Soldat
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Jean Aron as Joseph, le projectionniste
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Léonce Corne
Léonce Charles Corne (18 March 1894 – 31 December 1977) was a French film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1931 and 1974.
Selected filmography
* ''The Girl and the Boy'' (1931)
* ''Luck'' (1931)
* ''The Premature Father'' (1933)
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as Le Garde-Vue
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Martine Sarcey
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Selected filmography
* '' Matrimonial Agency'' (1952)
* '' Méfiez-vous, mesdames'' (1963)
* '' The Thief of Paris'' (1966)
* '' ...
as Mme Hausmann
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Jean Bouise as Le rédacteur en chef
References
External links
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1971 films
1970s French-language films
1970s German-language films
1971 drama films
Louis Delluc Prize winners
Films directed by André Delvaux
Films scored by Frédéric Devreese
1971 multilingual films
French drama films
Belgian drama films
French multilingual films
Belgian multilingual films
1970s French films
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