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One of the most famous (and much-emulated) beach endings is that of Les quatre cents coups (François Truffaut, 1959). This is discussed, along with key beach endings in the work of other nouvelle vague directors. Juste avant la nuit (Claude Chabrol, 1971) is examined in relation both to the novel on which it was based and to an earlier Japanese film version of the novel. Four directors whose work is full of beach scenes and beach endings—Federico Fellini, Diane Kurys, François Ozon and Takeshi Kitano—are looked at in detail, in each case relating the beach scenes to wider auteurist aspects of the director’s work. Two of the Kitano examples are related to Peter Brooks’ model for narrative as the ‘pulsation’ of the death instinct.
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Walker, M. (2020). Beaches: Auteurist Inflections. In: Endings in the Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31657-0_8
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