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| Directed by | Roger Vadim |
| Starring | Gwen Welles |
| Cinematography | Claude Renoir |
| Music by | Philippe Sarde |
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| Language | French |
Helle is a 1972 French film directed by Roger Vadim.
The film recorded admissions of 345,984 in France. [1]
Helle is a mentally retarded, deaf and mute village girl who lives high in the Savoy mountains of France. She is taken advantage by the village people for her lack of understanding what's good and bad. Maria is a widow and has two sons, Julien and Fabrice. The eldest one, Julien is a war veteran and his time in Vietnam has broken him. Fabrice, the youngest one comes home to spend summer vacation and falls in love with Helle. Helle in her own ways feels for him and finds herself unable to communicate it. Maria who is ageing falls in love with a sleazy guy who cunningly takes her fancy car in the name of love, and he entertains her fancy over him. Julien tells Fabrice that Helle is village's traveling "filles de joie." This unsettles Fabrice and he beats Julien out from their shack and forces himself on her. Julien walking back home feels depressed and commits suicide by jumping from the top of Cascade Saint-Benoît. Next morning, Fabrice and Helle goes to his home and on the way he sees his mother lying on the field depressed that her lover has left her. Fabrice calls Helle to follow him but seeing his love and closeness to his mother, Helle sees herself as an outsider and goes to the church where she first fell in love with Fabrice and falls in a despair. However, hearing the church bell faintly she finds herself happy and plays around like a cow by mistaking it for a cowbell.
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