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2.6/5 Mubi Produced by Louis Dolivet Initial release 9 November 1960 (France) Story by Henri Jeanson, Hal Ellson | 7.1/10 IMDb Directed by Marcel Carné Cinematography Claude Renoir Director Marcel Carné | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Marcel Carné
Henri-François Rey
Hal Ellson (novel) Starring Danielle Gaubert
Roland Lesaffre
Maurice Caffarelli
Constantin Andrieu
Denise Vernac
François Nocher Music by Michel Legrand
Francis Lemarque Screenplay Marcel Carné, Henri-François Rey Music director Michel Legrand, Francis Lemarque Cast Danièle Gaubert, Claudine Auger, Maurice Caffarelli, Denise Vernac, Georges Wilson Similar Chicken Feed for Little Birds, Juliette - or Key of Dreams, Law Breakers, Young Sinners, Air of Paris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 years wasteland
Wasteland (French: Terrain vague) is a 1960 French Drama film directed by Marcel Carné and starring Danielle Gaubert and Maurice Caffarelli. The story is loosely based on the novel Tomboy by Hal Ellson.
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Plot
Around a newly built HLM stretch wasteland and brownfield providing refuge to young people fleeing the unfathomable tedium of family life in the Paris suburbs. They share their secrets, the products of their thefts, submit to strict rituals. The sanctity of their revolt is highlighted by the initiation by jumping blindfolded and blood rite of passage. Dan, a beautiful young tomboyn rules the clan.
But the gang threatens increasingly sliding into serious crime, which is condemned by Dan and Lucky, a big brawler boy but who begins to consider an orderly life. Now they are ostracized along with the young Babar, accused of being a stool pigeon. Lucky, on the run, and Dan discover a mutual romantic inclination, while Babar, cruelly mistreated and humiliated, commits suicide.