Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide, internationally released as A Few Hours of Sunlight and A Little Sun in Cold Water, is a 1971 French film directed Jacques Deray adapted from the novel of Françoise Sagan.Clarke Fountain, Un peu de soleil dans l'eau, The New York Times. The title quotes the poet Paul Éluard.
Synopsis In Limoges, Nathalie Silvener, a married woman falls for Gilles, a depressed and brilliant Parisian journalist, himself in a relationship with a model.
Cast Claudine Auger : Nathalie Silvener Marc Porel : Gilles Lantier Judith Magre : Odile Nadine Alari : Gilda André Falcon : Florent Barbara Bach : Héloïse / Elvire Bernard Fresson : Jean Jean-Claude Carrière : François Gérard Depardieu : Pierre Marc Eyraud : Monsieur Rouargue Jacques Debary : Fairmont Guido Mannari : Thomas Mireille Perrey
Reception According to Cahiers du cinéma, the film is one of the most personal works of Deray.Cahiers du cinéma, issues 581-585, Éditions de l'Étoile, 2003, p.58. Le Nouvel Observateur referred to it as "un petit film démodé comme le petit roman de Sagan" (i.e., "a little film which is old-fashioned in the same way the little novel by Sagan is").Le nouvel observateur, Collection 1976, p.27. Time Out was very critical, calling it "fatuous" and saying "Porel gives one of the most boring, suburban, asexual performances imaginable". DVD Talk called it "dated and dull".
The novel It is based on a 1969 book by Françoise Sagan. BSCNews calls it "a superb novel", praising Sagan's "simple and poetic" style.
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