Annette's love life has been a disaster. Now it appears that her
daughter is about to make the same mistakes, by getting engaged to a
wealthy man instead of the man she really loves, a young aviator.
During the party, the ghosts of Annette's former husband and one of her
ex-lovers appear. They both hold her responsible for their
deaths. It wasn't long after her marriage that Annette began to
fall out of love with her husband. He was too occupied with his
work, so naturally she felt abandoned and sought love elsewhere.
When she left him to start an affair with a lion tamer, her husband
soon lost his zest for living. Annette's demands soon took their
toll on her new lover and, exhausted, he ended up being devoured by his
lions. A third ghost then puts in an appearance. It is the
young sailor that Annette loved before she was forced to marry a
wealthy man. Broken hearted, the young man killed himself, but he
does not judge Annette as unkindly as the other ghosts. Annette's
life is ruined, but it is not too late to save that of her daughter...
In his letters to his friends and family, Franz Kafka gives us a rich self-portrait that is surprisingly upbeat, nor the angst-ridden soul we might expect.
From Jean Renoir to François Truffaut, French cinema has no shortage of truly great filmmakers, each bringing a unique approach to the art of filmmaking.