L’Eau à la bouche (A Game for Six Lovers). 1960. Directed by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

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L'Eau a la bouche. 1959. France. Directed by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze. Courtesy Harvard Film Archive

L’Eau à la bouche (A Game for Six Lovers). 1960. France. Directed by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze. Screenplay by Doniol-Valcroze, Jean-José Richer. With Françoise Brion, Bernadette Lafont, Alexandra Stewart. DCP. In French; English subtitles. 95 min.

This first feature film by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, a cofounder of Cahiers du cinéma, is a hedonistic “marivaudage” in keeping with the spirit of the times, marked by a certain loosening of morals that, not accidentally, coincided with New Wave attempts to liberate cinema from its stale conventions. Serge Gainsbourg’s song, which bears the same title and is the leitmotif of the film, took on a life of its own in France. Courtesy Icarus Films

This film accompanies Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave.

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