Le Démon de midi (2005) Directed by Marie-Pascale Osterrieth
Comedy / Drama
aka: The Demon Stirs
Film Synopsis
Anna and Julien are an ordinary-looking Parisian couple who have enjoyed
the most harmonious of love affairs for fifteen years. In this time,
they have not only built a happy home together, they have also brought up
a darling little boy. Life could not have been kinder to them.
But then, at the age when the male menopause begins to kick in, Anna realises
that Julien no longer feels for her as he once did. It becomes apparent
to her that he is in love - but not with her.
This revelation is one that both disgusts and shocks Anna, as it is the last
thing she would have expected at their stage in their marriage. Julien
finally confides in his wife that he has found himself another woman and
is presently caught up in the most intense of love affairs. Her husband's
unwarranted infidelity is something that Anna finds difficult to accept at
first but, for the sake of her son, she knows she has to see it through and
not allow her emotions to get the better of her. In the end, contrary
to her earlier fears, she finds she can even laugh it off...
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.