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Love Play

Original title: La récréation
  • 1961
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
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Love Play (1961)
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A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor, he runs over and kills a man, and she ... Read allA young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor, he runs over and kills a man, and she witnesses it.A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor, he runs over and kills a man, and she witnesses it.

  • Directors
    • François Moreuil
    • Fabien Collin
  • Writers
    • Daniel Boulanger
    • François Moreuil
    • Françoise Sagan
  • Stars
    • Jean Seberg
    • Christian Marquand
    • Françoise Prévost
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    65
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • François Moreuil
      • Fabien Collin
    • Writers
      • Daniel Boulanger
      • François Moreuil
      • Françoise Sagan
    • Stars
      • Jean Seberg
      • Christian Marquand
      • Françoise Prévost
    • 3User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Jean Seberg
    Jean Seberg
    • Kate Hoover
    Christian Marquand
    Christian Marquand
    • Philippe
    Françoise Prévost
    Françoise Prévost
    • Anne de Limeuil
    • (as Françoise Prevost)
    Evelyne Ker
    Evelyne Ker
    • Kate's Friend
    Simone Desmaison
      Robert Le Fort
      Joëlle Latour
        Michel Lemoing
        Agnès Rivière
        Frédérique Villedent
          Colette Colas
          Dominique Valensi
          Paulette Dubost
          Paulette Dubost
          • Anne's Maid
          Monique Dagand
            • Directors
              • François Moreuil
              • Fabien Collin
            • Writers
              • Daniel Boulanger
              • François Moreuil
              • Françoise Sagan
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            barnowl

            Low budget follow-up to Breathless, for Seberg fans only.

            Jean Seberg, after bombing in Otto Preminger's St. Joan, had her greatest success playing an American in Paris in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless. In the same year (after, not before, Breathless) she was directed by her husband, Francois Moreuil, in this film (La Recreation, aka Love Play, aka Playtime). Again she plays an American abroad, but this time an innocent one (a boarding school student), who is attracted to a next-door sculpture. He and his mistress are painted as decadent, and he has committed a hit-and-run. The affair ends in crashing disillusionment for the Seberg character. My copy was very streaky, as most probably are. I am borrowing some here from "Played Out, the Jean Seberg Story" by David Richards (1981, out of print). The film is very dated - I would recommended it only to Jean Seberg fans.

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            • Trivia
              Jean Seberg referred to this film as her "farewell present" to François Moreuil, the film's director and her first husband. They were divorced shortly after filming was completed.
            • Connections
              Referenced in The Secret Cinema (1966)

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            • Release date
              • February 23, 1961 (France)
            • Country of origin
              • France
            • Language
              • French
            • Also known as
              • Playtime
            • Production company
              • Elite Films
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            • Runtime
              • 1h 27m(87 min)
            • Color
              • Black and White
            • Sound mix
              • Mono

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