Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Cast: Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Simone Renant, Jacqueline Champi, Jean Parédès,
Plot: A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
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 […]