
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.


During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...

Daniel Moosmann
Daniel

Geneviève Thénier
Geneviève
Josette Krieff
Josette

Guy Gilles
Guy

Simone Paris
The Landlady

Lili Bontemps
Singer

Bernard Verley
Geneviève's Friend

Jean-Pierre Léaud
The Boy at the Exit of the Cinema

Pierre Fabre
The drunk man at the bar
Martine Messager
Love at Sea is a romance, drama film released in 1965 exploring themes of sailor, first love, long distance relationship, brest, french new wave. Directed by Guy Gilles, it stars Daniel Moosmann, Geneviève Thénier, Josette Krieff. During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...
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