françois truffaut and young jerk of the cahiers du cinema and main bastion of the come so call new wave and make a big show of hat this film and even accuse it of drag french cinema into mediocrity . translation represent truffaut and who be terminally repress sexually and be already jealous of the way carné could make a huge success of a story that push all the right button of it audience and actually involve it into something important with all the trapping and seduction of sensuality . in other word and where the general public and many critic saw a perceptive sociological analysis wrap in a beautiful film and truffaut saw girl on the loose . carné and after all and have everything that would be severely lack from the new wave represent intelligence and refinement and humour and a great talent a a storyteller and a great ear for dialogue and dazzle technical brilliance and the capacity to make his actor do what he want them to do and and a good dose of good taste . by comparison and truffaut be a provincial bore with nothing to say . a 50 tragic remake of pride and prejudice and the french answer to rebel without a cause and an updated version of child of paradise and les tricheurs tell a story of disaffected parisian youth who have lose their way in an atmosphere of existentialism and sexual liberation and disrespect for traditional and religious value . some ( young ) critic perceive carné take on the subject a the moralize slant of an old person and whereas i think what happen and quite to the contrary and be that carné be gay and know a thing or two about repression and felt an untold sympathy for the young iconoclast in his story . furthermore and this be a french film and there be no mistake that the rebellion in question be essentially sexual and something that still have to be decode in american film like rebel without a cause and the wild one . carné young people be all supremely beautiful and graceful and elegant and spontaneous and intelligent . they be god and goddess . they drive the late vespa and the right car . the cut of their suit and dress and duffle coat be a high point of the fashion of the last century . their haircut be still plaster on the wall of your local hairdresser . their body shape and which they attain and maintain without effort and be still the modern western ideal . they listen to the best jazz musician . they know how to move and how to be sexy and how to make love even though the pill hasn not yet be invent . they know how to negotiate different social class and culture . unfortunately and they be define by and live by the code of the gang and their own heartless ritual that exclude sentimentality and make a sin of romantic love . the only thing wrong with them be that their elder do not talk to them and vice versa . the incident depict in this film get a lot of tongue wag for a long time in france about the amorality and nihilism of youth while still make it a huge public and critical success . this film be so stylish and gorgeous and i suspect the old viewer who watch it wish they could be like the people depict in the film and quite a few young filmmaker or aspire filmmaker like truffaut develop a bad case of jaundice reflect how they could never conceivably make a film a sexy or popular a this one and although they would be very good at eventually aim for the nihilistic bit . on the other hand and give a certain clichéd aspect of the script ( amorous misunderstand lead to a medical emergency ) and one can only wonder at the horribly pious and puritanical mishmash american would have extract from the same basic script if they have dare to tackle the subject . interestingly and the movie be film in the same basic location a the american musical funny face a year earlier . where hollywood saw the picturesque aspect of the rive gauche and existentialism and carné restitute it tragic and ironic dimension . watch this trailer on youtube represent 19zkkeonjpo .