Adieu Philippine

Set under the looming shadow of the Algerian war, Adieu Philippine follows a young television cameraman who meets and attempts to seduce two beautiful, inseparable young women, the trio's frolicking fun taking them from the streets of Paris to a Corsican holiday tinged with melancholy. Unafraid to shatter the rules of cinematic grammar, Rozier packs the film with playfully innovative camerawork, dialogue spoken in working-class slang, and a free-form narrative that veers off on tangents at will, a characteristic that would become a staple of his later work.