A certain smile
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A certain smile |
| Original title | A certain smile |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Negulesco |
| script |
Frances Goodrich Albert Hackett Françoise Sagan |
| production | Henry Ephron |
| music | Alfred Newman |
| camera | Milton Krasner |
| cut | Louis R. Loeffler |
| occupation | |
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A Certain Smile is a 1957 American love story melodrama by Jean Negulesco with Joan Fontaine and Rossano Brazzi in the leading roles. At the center of the story is the romance of two students, embodied by the American Bradford Dillman and the until then largely unknown French Christine Carère . The film is based on the novel Un certain sourire by Françoise Sagan from 1956.
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In this classic love story under the southern Riviera sun with fling, the two French students Bertrand Griot and Dominique Vallon are in the foreground. Both experience their love in a youthful and carefree way. One day, law student Dominique Bertrand met the charming and established uncle Luc Ferrand, a handsome and married man of the world whose experience and skill impressed her. The girl and the much older gentleman begin a short-term, but nonetheless very intense romance, which questions and mixes up the entire previous network of relationships between all those involved. For the wealthy Luc, however, this short-term romance was only a small summer flirtation, designed as a temporary love affair. The still somewhat naive Dominique is all the more disappointed when everything comes to an end again after a short time. After that, there seem to be only losers: Luc has to explain himself to his noble and indulgent wife Françoise, and Dominique tries to save the relationship with the rebellious Bertrand.
Production notes
A certain smile was premiered on July 31, 1958, the German premiere was on September 19 of the same year. On September 20, 1973 the film was broadcast for the first time on German television ( ARD at 8:15 p.m.).
John DeCuir and Lyle R. Wheeler were responsible for the film construction, Walter M. Scott was the set designer. Mary Wills designed the costumes.
Awards
The film was nominated for three Academy Awards:
- Best costume design
- Best original composition
- Best movie constructions
Reviews
In its October 8, 1958 edition, Der Spiegel wrote: "The almost pathological addiction of the film world to turn mainly unfilmed bestsellers while retaining the title and other external characteristics for cinema use is celebrating a downright abstruse triumph here: Hollywoods" A certain smile "has as much in common with Francoise Sagan's literary model as a real and a German Persian carpet."
“Françoise Sagan's novella became a bombastic soap opera in a romantic insignificance between Parisian students. (...) Fontaine was wasted. "
“Adaptation of Françoise Sagan's second novel; with displayed dreariness and grafted morals downplayed to a romantic melodrama in a chic Riviera ambience. "
“Another degenerate novella by Françoise Sagan (see Bonjour Tristesse ) which Hollywood transformed into a luminous romantic legend about the life of the Riviera rich. Very competent at this level. "
Web links
- A certain smile in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel , issue No. 41/1958
- ↑ A certain smile. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 1, 2018 .