L'amour à la mer

A young office worker in Paris waits for her sailor to return.

This is actually one of the better films of the Nouvelle Vague, an arresting snapshot of a time and a place and a mood: Paris in the nineteen sixties. It has some fresh and evocative images, which make it still seem vital and alive today - to tell the truth, many of the images would work better as a book of still photographs than a movie - but the story itself is slow and uninvolving and adds up to almost nothing, so the end result is instantly forgettable.