Biarritz: a beach town in France (in the south of the Bay of Biscay) where old Dodsworth's younger, sad wife is unfaithful to him, and where Delphine in Rohmer's Le rayon vert goes in search of a good vacation (=something to cure her blues ... love?). In Biarritz, in the cinema, one finds sad romance. Maybe not even romance: Baise-moi was shot, in part, in Biarritz ...
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Bad romance?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Romance
I'd still say that Hotel des Ameriques is the ultimate Biarritz film. Have you seen that one, ZC?
Jaime - I thought about it, but didn't go there. But I do kinda love Lady Gaga.
Ignatiy - unfortunately I haven't seen it, though it's right up my alley. (And if it's set in Biarritz then that surely makes it more of a Biarritz film than Dodsworth, which if I recall only alludes to the town. Off-diegesis action only.)
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