Summaries

Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece Pauline on a vacation to Granville. She meets an old love...

Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go to the emptying Atlantic coast for an autumn holiday. Marion ignores the approaches of a surfer and falls for Henri, a hedonist who is only interested in a sexual adventure and drops her soon. Pauline's little romance with a young man (Sylvain) is also spoiled by Henri.—Otto Oberhauser <[email protected]>

It's near the end of summer. Both Parisiennes, married Marion, who is close to divorcing her husband of a few years, has agreed to act as the guardian for her fifteen year old cousin Pauline in staying at the family house a few miles away from the Normandy coast, they planning to spend most of their days at what should be the relatively quiet beach due to it being the end of the season. Pauline has already spent two months of her summer on vacation with her parents and thus is looking for a little liberation. Their first day at the beach, Marion and Pauline run into Pierre, one of Marion's old still single boyfriends who is teaching windsurfing, and one of Pierre's slightly older students, divorced Henri, the four who end up spending much of their time together, especially after Henri's adolescent daughter, Marie, heads home to her mother. One of their first conversations turns to the topic of love and sex, and what they see for themselves for their own circumstance. This discussion ends up being prophetic in how their interactions turn out. Pierre, who wants to fall madly in love, believes that it can only develop slowly, and has fallen in love with Marion all over again in seeing her after their five years apart. Marion, who also wants to fall madly in love, tends to be attracted to the unknown. As such, she finds Pierre too known a quantity, with Henri that man of mystery with who she is falling in love. Henri wants sex without commitment, he who will take the sex from whoever he is attracted regardless of their situation. And Pauline, who has never had a serious boyfriend, befriends similarly aged Sylvain, for who she does develop feelings. What happens between Pauline and Sylvain is not only affected by what Pauline gleans from that first night conversation, but also how the three adults deal with sex and love with each other.—Huggo

In the end of the summer vacation, the fifteen year old Pauline travels with her older divorced cousin, Marion, to her seaside house in Granville. While on the beach, Marion meets her old friend Pierre, who has a crush on her, and his new acquaintance Henri, who lives in Oceania and is spending vacation with his young daughter in the resort. In the night, they go to a casino and Marion has one night stand with Henri, feeling a great passion for him. However, Henri is a wolf and has no interest in having any commitment with Marion. Meanwhile Pauline listens and observes the behavior of the older people while she has a little but disappointing romance with a boy of her own age.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Details

Keywords
  • beach
  • female full frontal nudity
  • vacation
  • womanizer
  • jealousy
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance
Release date Mar 22, 1983
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin France
Official sites Les Films du Losange
Language Spanish French
Filming locations Jullouville, Manche, France
Production companies Les Films Ariane Les Films du Losange

Box office

Gross worldwide $551

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 35m
Color Color
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio

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