The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations and artificial pleasures previously unknown to her.
If you have any love for dusty, slightly scandalous French melodramas from the 1930s, La garçonne is absolutely worth a look tonight. It is a wild ride for anyone who likes seeing old-school rebellion, but if you cannot stand crackly audio and slow, theatrical pauses, you will probably turn it off in ten minutes. The ...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Jean de Limur
Alexander Butler
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"If you have any love for dusty, slightly scandalous French melodramas from the 1930s, La garçonne is absolutely worth a look tonight. It is a wild ride for anyone who likes seeing old-school rebellion, but if you cannot stand crackly audio and slow, theatrical pauses, you will probably turn it off in ten minutes. The whole thing is about Monique, who decides she would rather run away into the Parisian night than marry some boring guy her parents picked out. She basically goes on a massive, jazz..."
Daniel Lecourtois
Jacques Natanson, Albert Dieudonné, Victor Margueritte
France
