This was the first film directed by
Eric Rohmer, and although it is not without flaws, this story of a down-and-out foreigner in Paris has its merits. Pierre (
Jess Hahn)
is a music student and already living on a shoestring when he hears
that he has inherited a large sum of money. But just when it looks like
his luck is changing for the better, his so-called inheritance is
suddenly ephemeral. Saddled with debts, he wanders around the shadier
side of the city throughout the summer, trying to survive but instead
sinking deeper and deeper into the morass of poverty. His friends help
out, and at the end it looks like his luck will be changing once again.
