Sunday, February 15, 2009

UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME ( A MAN AND A WOMAN) (1966)



UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME ( A MAN AND A WOMAN) (1966)-
Saw it back in college. In a nutshell, race car driver (man) and photographer (woman) circle each other before finally getting together. It's as light as a souffle and about as substantial as one. Quite the big deal in its day, unconventional as it was then.
Personally, I always saw myself as more of an UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG homme.

Watching the clip again, I just realized that was the inspiration for the recurring bits on SEINFELD where George and later Jerry, after much romantic pondering on a pier (inexplicably the famous Santa Monica Pier on the other side of the country), runs off to sweetie.