Rue de l’estrapade (1953) - film review

Françoise and Henri appear to be a perfectly happy married couple living in Paris.  When she discovers that her husband, a test car driver, has been having an affair with another woman, Françoise immediately packs her bags and moves into a house in the Rue de L’Estrapade, in the Latin Quarter.  Here, she falls under the spell of a young musician...

Whilst not in the same league as some of Jacques Becker’s better films (most notably Casque d’or, which was made immediately before this one), Rue de l’estrapade is a pleasing example of mid-1950s French melodrama.   Becker had the good sense not to dress the film up as anything other than a straightforward romantic drama, and most of its charm is in the performances of the three leading chic young actors, Anne Vernon, Louis Joudan and Daniel Gélin.


© James Travers 2002

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