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Directed by | John Guillermin |
Screenplay by |
Ennio Flaiano Stanley Mann |
Based on |
Rapture in My Rags by Phyllis Hastings |
Starring |
Melvyn Douglas Patricia Gozzi |
Music by | Georges Delerue |
Cinematography | Marcel Grignon |
Edited by | Max Benedict Françoise Diot |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time
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104 minutes |
Country | France United States |
Language | French English |
Rapture (French: La fleur de l'âge) is a 1965 French-American film directed by John Guillermin, and starring Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, and .
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farmhouse in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up their relationship.
Time magazine called the film a "penumbral play of love against loneliness" that "boost[s] the artistic stock of English director John Guillermin" and "clinch[es] the reputation of France's 15-year-old Patricia Gozzi."