Quadrille
Fint

Review by Fint Patron

Quadrille 1938

★★½

Watched 02 Aug 2020

The French did things so differently. It is literally impossible to imagine this film being made in Hollywood or Britain in the 1930s. Everyone is shagging around, being unfaithful, betraying their friends, making a mockery of marriage. There is even a suicide attempt thrown into the mix - and I thought The Apartment was the first comedy to feature someone trying to kill themselves over love.

It is almost certainly a play transposed to the screen since everything takes place in just a few rooms and it is very talky. Things happen and then the characters talk at length about the things that we saw happening. My mind wandered.

I am immune to the charms of its star/writer/director Sacha Guitry, a man for whom the word 'ego' was invented. There is however a charming performance from Gaby Morlay as his live-in lover who gets her head turned by a dashing Hollywood star visiting Paris.

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