Les tricheurs (1958)
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Jacques Charrier, Pascale Petit, Laurent Terzieff, Andréa Parisy, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Marin, Alfonso Mathis, Pierre Brice, Dany Saval, Michel Nastorg, Gabrielle Fontan, Dominique Page, Jacques Portet, Alan Scott, Roland Lesaffre
A reserved science graduate is drawn into a bohemian circle where his growing love for Mic conflicts with the group's disdain for conventional sentiment.
The story
After earning his science degree, Bob chooses solitude over celebrating with his friends and fellow graduates, reflecting on recent personal events. His story began with Alain, a dropout from the École normale supérieure who lives bohemically at the expense of people around him. Alain brings Bob to the Bonaparte, a café in Saint-Germain-des-Prés frequented by a circle of idle young people, including Clo and Mic. Bob and Mic fall in love, but neither admits it: their companions regard such feelings as petty-bourgeois and ridiculous. Their attraction therefore develops under the pressure of a group that rejects conventional emotional attachments.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Bob has just learned that he has earned his science degree, but instead of going out with his friends or fellow graduates to celebrate their shared success, he prefers to stay alone and sadly think back on some recent personal events. For the young man, it all began when he met Alain, who, having dropped out of the École normale supérieure, lives a bohemian life at the expense of those around him, whether family heirs or others. Alain takes Bob to the Bonaparte, a café in Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the headquarters of a group of more or less young idlers, including Clo and Mic. Bob and Mic fall in love but dare neither to acknowledge nor confess it, because the group they hang around with would consider such a feeling petty-bourgeois and ridiculous.
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