Le Père Goriot (1945)

Le Père Goriot is a French film comedy-drama first released in 1945, directed by Robert Vernay.  The film is based on a novel by Honoré de Balzac and stars Pierre Renoir, Claude Génia, Lise Delamare, Pierre Larquey and Georges Rollin.  It has also been released under the title: Father Goriot.  Our overall rating for this film is: good.


Eugène de Rastignac, a penniless provincial nobleman, lives at the boarding house of Madame Vauquier in Paris.  Armed with a letter of introduction from his mother, he pays a visit to his cousin Madame de Bauseant, who offers him advice on how to make his way in the world.  At the boarding house, Eugène meets a strange man named Vautrin, who tries to inculcate in him the cynicism he needs to prosper in Parisian society.  Eugène also takes an interest in another boarder, the old man Père Goriot, a once successful businessman who receives frequent visits from two attractive young women.  Vautrin explains that these women are Goriot’s daughters, the countess Anastasie de Restaud and the Baroness Delphine de Nucingen, who both became rich by marriage.  It seems that the two sisters’ extravagant tastes cannot be met by the money their husbands give them, so they visit their father to take what is left of his former wealth...
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