Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Cast: Odette Joyeux, André Luguet, Jacques Dumesnil, Pierre Larquey, Robert Le Vigan,
Plot: Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
Claude Autant-Lara’s wartime romances: Eclipse #45
Criterion have followed their fine Eclipse set of Julien Duvivier films with a collection of features by another French director pushed into obscurity by the New Wave: Claude Autant-Lara, represented here by four films made during the German […]