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DrameAnnée1965Durée1h 44mIMDb7.2

La fleur de l'âge

Drame

Agnès, une adolescente solitaire, et son père se lient d'amitié avec un forçat évadé, nommé Joseph, qui arrive dans leur ferme en Bretagne, en France. Lorsque Joseph développe une attirance pour Agnès, son père menace de rompre l'union.

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Bande-annonce

Casting

John Guillermin

Director

Melvyn Douglas

Frederick Larbaud

Patricia Gozzi

Agnes Larbaud

Dean Stockwell

Joseph

Gunnel Lindblom

Karen

ME

Murray Evans

Young Gendarme

Sylvia Kay

Genevieve

Ellen Pollock

Landlady

Peter Sallis

Armand

Christopher Sandford

Albert - Young man at wedding

LS

Leslie Sands

First Gendarme

René Aranda

Wedding guest

Jean-Claude Bercq

The mechanic in Karen's room

Albert Daumergue

Barman on the boat

MG

Marius Gaidon

Wedding guest

PG

Pierre Gualdi

Café's owner

GM

Gaston Meunier

Wedding guest

GP

Georgette Peyron

Wedding guest

RS

Robert Secq

Wedding guest

Stanley Mann

Writer

PH

Phyllis Hastings

Writer

Ennio Flaiano

Writer

Commentaires

10 commentaires

Mihlali NdamaseMay 29, 2023

source: Rapture

Asha hopeNov 16, 2022

Rapture

A.B IINov 16, 2022

Magnificent performance by Patricia Gozzi, with the help of Dean Stockwell and Melvyn Douglas. Brilliant directing by John, Guillermin who admits that he never had to direct a more gifted actress (John Guillermin is also responsible for the discovery of Jessica Lange, introduced in King Kong) The film suffered of a black & white (inspired ) cinematography (by French cameraman Marcel Grigon) at a time when distributors would not accept to release a film other than in color,to fight the TV competition (1965). Patricia Gozzi is also great in GRABUGE another ill-starred production of Darry F.Zanuck that was a harbinger to the 68 riot in Paris.

ucopNov 16, 2022

i first saw this film about 7 years ago and i still pop it in every now and then. i seem to be the only person that finds the story to be well formed and moving. a young stockwell plays a charismatic fugitive that becomes involved with a tattered young girl and her estranged father. There is some very simplistic yet beautiful foreshadowing techniques that tie the movie together neatly. overall, i think this a great little flick about the trials of human nature and the way our hearts sometimes take us on journeys we are not prepared to undergo.

Fatherdmw55Nov 16, 2022

I really love old French films... the love stories are always more romantic and poignant.. wonderful acting

Meliss'okNov 16, 2022

I have just tracked down this film, through this site, many years after the one and only time I saw it. I saw it as a B film i.e. tagged on to the main feature but it left such a lasting impression I cannot remember what the main feature was. It was the beginning of the film that made such an impact on me and that I remember most.The idea of a scarecrow coming to life (Joseph in hiding) and Agnes'd reaction which gripped me. The photography was dark and powerful.The developing relationship between Agnes and Joseph and her fathers reaction to it was moving. I do not know what I would make of it now but I hope it would generate the same emotions that I felt as a teenager.

MarcoNov 16, 2022

I wish this title was available on dvd...it is only on blue ray. SIGH!

Floyd MayweatherNov 16, 2022

Grossly underappreciated film-warlord, John Guillermin's starkly-ravishing, darkly-dreamlike, 'Rapture' (1965) is one of the more tangibly magical, and exceptionally exquisite coming-of-age dramas in my collection. And if that 'aint enough cinematic meat for your cranial crucible, just watch it for the saucily unkempt, wickedly windswept grooviness of the young terror-scamp, Dean Stockwell, dude!

user4304645171849Nov 16, 2022

This is a great film. For some reason this movie really struck a cord with me when I first caught in on tv back when I was a teenager. The lighting, the French location, the novelty [to me] of the film style...I must have watched it a hundred times. Even though I haven't seen it in a few years, I still remember how Agnes is so overwhelmed by everything in her life and seems to like to hide her in childlike world. And Dean Stockwell is actually pretty cute; I was surprised to find out this the same Dean Stockwell that was later on Quantum Leap. My mother told me that he was quite the heartthrob in the Sixties, and one can see why in this film. I also read the book by Phyllis Hasting, and it is a whole lot darker in tone than the film. I think it also explores the father-daughter relationship in more detail than the film. This and some of her other books seem very anti-male.

Franja du PlessisNov 16, 2022

This is a film that I've seen twice, the last time in 1972, that has stuck with me all these years. Patricia Gozzi was so alluring and the score so haunting and beautiful...I remember waiting for the credits to role to see the name of this unknown actress and the composer. It's the first I'd heard of Georges Delarue and the first of many times I'd heard a mesmerizing score and later seen Delarue's name. I'd love to see this movie again.

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