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Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes

Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume.

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I hope that if I ever go to a mall in Paris that I get to see Jean-Pierre Léaud ruefully dressed up as Santa :)
hiding behind the beard gave me confidence — jean-pierre leaud dons a santa costume, finds better luck with the ladies and liberation from lower-class woes.

just wish a lot of y'all film boys would stop taking social cues from jpl's characters :-)
"Suddenly I started to regret not having taken advantage of my Santa Claus costume. My return to the civil life looked difficult."

Despite it's relative obscurity, this feels like maybe one of the most quintessentially "Nouvelle Vague" films ever, with it's sidewalk cafes, fashionably-dressed young people, documentary-style black & white cinematography, and of course Jean-Pierre Leaud. At less than an hour long, it may seem like "minor" Eustache, but then again don't most films seem minor compared to something like The Mother and the Whore ? His style here feels perhaps even closer to Eric Rohmer's early work, albeit with an even more ruthlessly unsentimental outlook. Like Rohmer, Eustache is probably one of the greatest directors at portraying the inner workings of the heterosexual male psyche in all of it's unsavoriness and absurdity. I think anyone who calls this "light" has to be completely missing all the aching pathos lingering just beneath the surface.

Rating: 83/100
The inevitable in an Eustache film is the apathetic, coarse and brusque portrait of the amorous prospects between man and woman, here he does not dangerously examine the existentialism of human interrelationships as in his exhaustive masterpiece The Mother and The Whore (1973) but he does approach toxicity, perhaps from a comic superficiality but still bordering on the pronounced pernicious philosophy of his magnum opus. Every great artist has overtures, this is one of them in Eustache's inscrutable poetry yet self-destructive filmography.
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Idk, it's very hard not to get a little of my love by shooting Paris around Christmas in the 60s on B&W film - the aesthetics warm my dumb lizard brain! But this seemed rather facile in its depiction of horny young hetero male ennui, and there's very little formal playfulness to enliven it. There's something of a farcical gem in the idea of a teenager whose mad that he only gets the attention of women when he's dressed as Santa outside the mall, but there's little farce here so that gem means nothin.
A slice of parisian life, and nobody better than Eustache to show us in the most materially concise and affecting way possible its commentary on class and routine.
With this I can celebrate Christmas AND be pretentious!! Thanks French New Wave. The naturally-lit B&W shooting here is pretty neat and the whole film is actually quite good.
when daniel walked by the 400 blows poster and stopped to stare at it...i screamed
more like santa claus has blue balls. get it. cause he didnt get any pussy
I suggest watching "My little loves" before watching this film, because Jean-Pierre Léaud could easily be the grown up version of Daniel in "My Little Loves".
His teenage years are over and now Daniel is a young man who still lives in Narbonne. Like in the past, he idles aways in cafes with his friends and mostly they talk about women. He strolls along that famous boulevard of town where boys and girls encounter and go on a date.
Apparently nothing has changed for him and needless to say, he has yet to find a girl because he is still poor and unemployed, he is lost and cannot meet the expectations of society and as he used to do, he…
léaud looked very cute in his duffle coat