Word: cara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school is run by two beautiful and accomplished women, Mlles. Julie and Cara (Edwige Feuillère and Simone Simon). Julie, the more active, more masculine of the two, cannot resist charming the children given to her charge and trying to win more affection than she has a right to. Desperate for attention herself, the weak Cara subsides into a peevish hypochondria, keeps to her room and lets control of the school pass to Julie...
...young girls, exquisitely suggestible, divide as the pair has divided, some du cote de Mlle. Julie, the others devoted to Mlle. Cara-all innocently, giddily suspended in the nameless tension of the emotional contest. As it fills every room and scene with the breath of girls in the bud, with an air of girlish whispers, forbidden perfume and muffled laughter. Pit of Loneliness falls nothing short of magic...
...Cara dies from an overdose of sedative. Shattered with grief and remorse, Julie leaves the school. Olivia is left to mend her life as best she can. The only serious fault in the picture is its failure to cut the gab at the end and leave the audience to make what it will of the situation. Instead, the last few scenes shift from one foot to another like guests who cannot bear to leave until they have hit on a clever exit line...
...seen by Mlle. Julie's girls. The acting is first rate. In scene after scene, Edwige Feuillere's performance as Julie rings like fine glass. Marie-Claire Olivia as Olivia does very well with a fairly monotonous part, and Simone Simon is real as the spoiled, catlike Cara. but perhaps does not display quite strongly enough the ravages of her moral mange...
Skelton's supporting cast is excellent. Dorothy Stickney, as a ginned-away shop lifter redeemed by delusions of mother hood, is enormously funny. Cara Williams, the love interest, plays it tough and tender with equal sureness as a little Miss Wrong who is waiting for big Mr. Right. And Kurt Kasznar is just about perfect as a pillar of the pool hall trying to act like a paterfamilias...