The Proud and the Beautiful

The Proud and the Beautiful

1953 · 103 min · FR · 6.7 (28 votes)
Dir. Yves Allégret · Starring Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Carlos López Moctezuma, Michèle Cordoue, André Toffel · Music Paul Misraki

“Strips Bare of Prim Morality a Side of Love That Women Won't Admit - Even to Themselves!”

Drama

Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.

VIBE

Under a suffocating heatwave, two lost souls find an unexpected, desperate connection. It's a raw, intimate portrayal of isolation and the yearning for redemption, where even the most broken can find a flicker of hope.

melancholicoppressiveyearningintimatedesperateslow-burncharacter-driven dramaarthousesweaty realismgriefredemptionisolationconnection
husband wife relationshipheatwave