What is 10:30 PM Summer / Mademoiselle about?

Name: 10:30 PM Summer / Mademoiselle
Genre: Drama

10:30 PM SUMMER,1966, MGM Repertory, 85 min. One of director Jules Dassin’s finest later films is a mesmerizing amor fou drama written by Marguerite Duras. Middle-aged couple Melina Mercouri and Peter Finch, driving cross-country in Spain with friend Romy Schneider, are stranded in a village where police search for a man who has killed his lover. Mercouri witnessing Finch and Schneider’s chemistry together fuels her drinking. By chance, she runs into the fugitive, and spontaneously helps him escape into the countryside. MADEMOISELLE, 1966, MGM Repertory, 103 min. Dir. Tony Richardson. Jeanne Moreau, a repressed rural schoolteacher, drags farmer Ettore Manni and his son (Keith Skinner) down into a whirlpool of degradation. When Manni decides to leave, Moreau explodes in a swath of destruction aimed at implicating Manni. Writer Marguerite Duras penned the screenplay, adapted from a story by Jean Genet (The Thief’s Journal). In French, with English subtitles.

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What is 10:30 PM Summer / Mademoiselle about?: 10:30 PM SUMMER,1966, MGM Repertory, 85 min. One of director Jules Dassin’s finest later films is a mesmerizing amor fou drama written by Marguerite Duras. Middle-aged couple Melina Mercouri and Peter Finch, driving cross-country in Spain with friend Romy Schneider, are stranded in a village where police search for a man who has killed his lover. Mercouri witnessing Finch and Schneider’s chemistry together fuels her drinking. By chance, she runs into the fugitive, and spontaneously helps him escape into the countryside.

MADEMOISELLE, 1966, MGM Repertory, 103 min. Dir. Tony Richardson. Jeanne Moreau, a repressed rural schoolteacher, drags farmer Ettore Manni and his son (Keith Skinner) down into a whirlpool of degradation. When Manni decides to leave, Moreau explodes in a swath of destruction aimed at implicating Manni. Writer Marguerite Duras penned the screenplay, adapted from a story by Jean Genet (The Thief’s Journal). In French, with English subtitles.