Les amitiés particulières (film)
Les amitiés particulières (English: Special Friendships) is a 1964 film adaptation of the Roger Peyrefitte novel of the same name, directed by Jean Delannoy. It was released in 1967 with English subtitles as This Special Friendship. It stars Francis Lacombrade and Didier Haudepin as boys at an upper-class Catholic boarding school whose chaste but intimate friendship is discouraged as sinful by the priests (played by Louis Seigner, Michel Bouquet, and Lucien Nat).
Plot
The movie is mostly true to the novel, changing only relatively minor plot points, such as Alexandre's suicide from poisoning to death by throwing himself from a train. Also, Alexandre in the movie is brown-haired, not blond, which also removes some of the inside jokes between Alexandre and Georges present in the book.
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Notes
- This film has homosexual themes.
External links
- Review Les amitiés particulières at the Internet Movie Database
- Stills from the movie
- (in Japanese) Four-minute making-of at Institut national de l'audiovisuel
- Les amitiés particulières at All Movie Guide
- Schoolboy Sins—1967 Time magazine review of the movie (subscription required)
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