Le Mariage de Chiffon / Claude Autant-Lara / 1942

Le Mariage de Chiffon (1942)
Claude Autant-Lara

Drama / Comedy / History

Synopsis

Chiffon, a young lady from a respectable aristocratic family, finds herself torn between the man she loves – her impecunious uncle – and the man her mother has selected for her - a well-connected military man. Will she be lucky in love?

Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Script: Jean Aurenche, Marcel Blondeau, based on a novel by Gyp
Photo: Philippe Agostini, Jean Isnard
Music: Roger Désormières
Cast: Odette Joyeux (Corysande ’Chiffon’), André Luguet (Le duc d’Aubières), Jacques Dumesnil (Max de Bray), Pierre Larquey (Jean), Robert Le Vigan (L’huissier), Suzanne Dantès (Madame de Bray), Louis Seigner (Philippe de Bray), Georges Vitray (Van Doren), Bernard Blier (Le garçon d’hôtel), Jean Boissemond, Raymond Bussières (Marcel Férez), Monette Dinay (Alice de Liron), France Ellys (Sophie), Luce Fabiole (La couturière), Richard Francoeur (Léon)
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 103 min; B&W

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Film Review

Le Mariage de Chiffon is the first of three historical satires directed by Claude Autant-Lara during World War II – the others being Lettres d’amour (1942) and Douce (1943). All three films starred the petite Odette Joyeux, who gives an extraordinarily moving performance in each film. Having worked with Maurice Lehmann for a time, most notably on the farce Fric-Frac (1939), Autant-Lara found his own style with this popular "Joyeux trilogy". His well-honed satire reveals an intense dislike for the conventions of the aristocracy and Bourgeoisie – a sentiment which most ordinary people would have shared at the time.

© James Travers 2003

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