A jilted painter trades champagne problems for gutter poetry in 1930 Paris.
A famous painter loves Madeleine Granval, a rich and divorced society woman, who cheats on him. To console himself, he goes to Montmartre where he meets Denise Fleury, a young woman who has fallen into poverty.
Production
Authentic Montmartre location shooting, rare for 1930.
Costume
Granval's gowns vs. Denise's faded glory—visual storytelling.
Director
René Hervil
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-Code Hollywood and European cinema shared this frankness about infidelity before the Hays Code clampdown—this French production got away with even more.
Director René Hervil was primarily a screenwriter; this is one of his rare directorial credits in a career spanning 200+ scripts.
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