A 1933 French kid tries to steal his dad's mistress. Family therapy hadn't been invented yet.
Étienne, a very sensitive being, watches helplessly as his mother suffers from his father's infidelities. He tries to seduce his father's next conquest without his knowledge.
Acting
Jean Forest's unsettlingly adult child performance.
Direction
Tarride's early sound-era staging experiments.
Director
Jean Tarride
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jean Forest was a major child star in late silent/early sound French cinema, often playing wise-beyond-their-years youths in films like 'Little Lise' before retiring young.
This film captures the brief 1930-1934 'pre-Code' window in French cinema before stricter censorship, when domestic scandal and sexual suggestion could still play for comedy.
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