Octave Feuillet's play about an elderly Parisian rake who romances a parade of sophisticated women without falling for any of them. He meets his match when he tries to win a young girl away from her fiance, a struggling young artist.
Should you bother? If you like movies where people stand in grand rooms and talk about their feelings in a way nobody actually talks, you might find this charming. If you need your pacing to be snappy, skip this. It's for the people who want to see the 1930s version of a bad breakup. Lew Cody is playing the kind of gu...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
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"Should you bother? If you like movies where people stand in grand rooms and talk about their feelings in a way nobody actually talks, you might find this charming. If you need your pacing to be snappy, skip this. It's for the people who want to see the 1930s version of a bad breakup. Lew Cody is playing the kind of guy who probably spends too much time looking at himself in the mirror. He’s smooth, sure, but it’s that exhausting kind of smooth that makes you want to trip him on his way to the n..."
Marion Shilling
Octave Feuillet, F. Hugh Herbert
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