The director who made cameras weep finally gets his close-up.
A 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with many of film director Max Ophuls’s collaborators
Direction
Mitrani lets legends speak, rarely intruding.
Acting
Darrieux and Simon radiate old Hollywood elegance.
Director
Michel Mitrani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This episode captures French cinema's obsession with its own golden age just as the New Wave was violently rejecting it.
Marcel Ophüls would later direct *The Sorrow and the Pity*, becoming arguably more famous than his father—a tension humming beneath his polite remarks here.
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