Wasteland (1960 film)

Wasteland
Directed by Marcel Carné
Produced by Louis Dolivet
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
Cinematography Claude Renoir
Edited by Henri Rust
Marguerite Renoir
Distributed by Cinédis
Release dates
  • 9 November 1960 (1960-11-09)
Running time
102 minutes
Country France
Italy
Language French

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.

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.

Cast

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