Trocadéro bleu citron

I have an ambivalent attitude towards the film.

On the one hand, this is a pretty easy and fun children's movie. It has an incredibly attractive atmosphere of the late 70s. It is very sunny and summery.

The main character is a 10-year-old boy who goes skateboarding in the Parisian Trocadero park every day. He has friends and a wise, beautiful mother.

During one of his walks, he meets a girl and falls in love with her. But her parents are quite respectable people. He wants them to like him so that he can spend more time with the girl.

But on the other hand, in this film it is not very clear why he and his mother live alone, even in a fairly decent house. His mother have a huge American SUV and she works as a photographer. Probably her job is highly paid. She spends a lot of time with her son, they do yoga. She is the quintessential free independent woman of her time. But in the film, it's taken for granted. It is unclear to me whether this is a look at the crisis of the mononuclear family and the consequences of the hippie movement and students of 68, or an assessment of the role of the mother in modern conditions in principle. In short, I would love to watch a movie about how this woman does it all. In the end, she is played by Annie Duperey and I started watching the movie mainly because of this fact.

Delicious French film from the late 70s that is aimed at family audiences. La Place de Trocadero is basically the perimeter edges of the Eiffel tower feet and it is in this iconic garden setting that this Gallic disco skate musical exists. Probably made with inspiration from such B grade US pix as TILT or SKATERDATER this one combines the TGIF / CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC level of professional groovy disco beat to kids zipping about on skateboards and roller skates and family dramas. Trust the French to bump the treatment up from drive in fodder to spectacular Parisian family musical. This is a outdoor family disco movie with skates... and Paris etc. The soundtrack is sensational, and one full track 'The Trocadero Suite" featured on the soundtrack LP from 70s beat-factory Casablanca Records runs a massive unforgettable 18 minutes rivaling the fantastic DEEP soundtrack suite for genuine iconic 70s disco effect. If the French can can re wrap MGM musical style into THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG and THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT, you can get the drift of what they have done here combining SKATERDATER with "Thank God It's Friday"....outdoors and plonked it all beneath the Eiffel Tower...with kids.

I saw this film when I was about 10 or 11 (around 1980) I fell in love with the girl in this film. This is a great film for kids who are hopeless romantics. I was one and was lucky enough to have a great romance as a child too. I think this film inspired me to go after the "girl" every chance I had. .....Ahhh childhood romance, I can feel my heart beating faster and oh I can't catch my breath.