Sylvie and the Phantom (1946)

Review: Sylvie and the Phantom (1946)

Director: Claude Autant-Lara

Cast: Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Pierre Larquey, Claude Marcy, Jean Desailly,

Odette Joyeux
Odette Joyeux
François Périer
François Périer
Pierre Larquey
Pierre Larquey
Claude Marcy
Claude Marcy
Jean Desailly
Jean Desailly

Plot: A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father hires three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her. Little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls.

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Claude Autant-Lara’s wartime romances: Eclipse #45

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 […]

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