"Un Infant Dans La Foule" (English: A Child in the Crowd) is the lost masterpiece of the French 1970s. It tells about a young boy who was rejected by society during the days of the German occupation. We watch the boy as he supports the Resistant fighters merely to make his mum love him. We observe him walking the streets where he is the only one to feel pity on a "Femme Tondue" (bald women, that was the masses did to women who slept with the enemy) as the allies approach near Paris. The story is sad because Paul's search for love is so relentlessly and undeservedly failed. Abused with a cruelly heartless mother who is the only real rascal in the story, some of the most touching scenes concern his affecting and empty efforts to get her love.
A “Child in the Crowd” movie is not as dark as either of these films, but, excepting its shortage of commercial trace, is every bit as significant.
9/21/20
A Child in the Crowd 1976 - rare French film
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