Le Bateau sur l'herbe

The Boat on the Grass
Directed by	Gérard Brach
Produced by	Jean-Pierre Rassam
Written by	Gérard Brach Roman Polanski Suzanne Schiffman
Starring	Claude Jade Jean-Pierre Cassel John McEnery Valentina Cortese
Music by	François Rabbath
Cinematography	Étienne Becker
Edited by	Claude Barrois
Distributed by	Valoria Films
Release date	April 16, 1971
Running time	90 mins
Country	France
Language	French

The Boat on the Grass (French: Le Bateau sur l'herbe) is a 1971 French film directed by Gérard Brach. It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.

In this gentle, tragic drama, Olivier (John McEnery) is a wealthy young man. He spends his time building a boat on the lawn with his friend David (Jean-Pierre Cassel), a poor fisherman whom he grew up with. Though hardly idyllic, the relative calm provided by their friendship is disrupted by Eleonore (Claude Jade), a cute and determined young woman who sets her sights on David. She wants to wean David from his friendship with Olivier and plays on David's long-dormant jealousy of Olivier's wealth and easy life. Eleonore also plays the flipside of the jealousy issue, claiming that Olivier has made passes at her.

Vincent Canby: "Adorable Acting, especially by Claude Jade, who brings the right mixture of conventionalism and self-interest into her role."

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