Le Don d'Adèle (1951)
Directed by Émile Couzinet

Film Review

Le Don d'Adèle started out as a popular stage play, written by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy, before it ended up as this limp and uninspired film comedy, not one of director Émile Couzinet's more memorable cinematic offerings.  In the hands of a more imaginative director, and with a more adept cast, the film might have done justice to the play on which it was based, but as it is, lacklustre through and through,  it is just a dawdling plod-a-thon that fails to take off.

Film Synopsis

When her gift of second sight is revealed, Adèle is expelled from her home village in the country and ends up being engaged as a maid to the well-off Veyron-Laffite family.  It isn't long before Adèle's ability to predict the future with alarming accuracy causes pandemonium in her new household, but she loses this strange ability when she becomes the mistress of her employers' son...