Adieu Philippine is a 1962 French film directed by Jacques Rozier

Jacques Rozier

Jacques Rozier is a French film director and screenwriter. He is one of the lesser known members of the French New Wave movement and has collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard. Three of his films have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival...

. Although obscure and difficult to screen, it has been praised as one of the key films of the French New Wave

French New Wave

The New Wave was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema. Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of...

. It premiered at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival

1962 Cannes Film Festival

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Synopsis

Michel is a bored young man in Paris about to be sent to Algeria in the army. He works as a technician at a TV station. One day he meets two teenage girls, Juliette and Liliane, and begins dating them both separately. Eventually the girls find out and Michel goes on vacation to Corsica to escape them. The two girls follow him there and the three search for a film director who owes Michel money. In the end the Juliette and Liliane watch Michel sail away on a boat headed for Algeria.

Cast

• Jean-Claude Aimini as Michel
• Daniel Descamps as Daniel
• Stefania Sabatini as Juliette
• Yveline Céry as Liliane
• Vittorio Caprioli
  Vittorio Caprioli
  Vittorio Caprioli was an Italian film actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990...
  
   as Pachala
• David Tonelli as Horatio
• Annie Markhan as Juliette (voice)
• André Tarroux as Régnier de l'Isle
• Christian Longuet as Christian
• Michel Soyet as André