Word: gelin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot is carried well by the actors. Daniel Gelin gives a believable portrayal of the confused intellectual, while Pierre Bresseur, as Hoederer, is powerful and sensitive at the same time. Both Claude Nollier, as the faithful party workers, and Monique Artur, as Gelin's less faithful wife, are excellent...
...Model is less fragmentary and more engrossing. An artist (Daniel Gelin) and a model (Simone Simon) have a passionate affair, set up housekeeping in a beautifully improbable love nest, quarrel and separate. Up until this point, the love story might have been written by Colette, but De Maupassant ends it with the detached irony that is his trademark...
...episodes vary in length, mood and quality. The longest and best, strung together midway in the film, shine with a brilliance that the rest of the movie cannot match. These catch the essence of three classic situations: the willing maid (Simone Simon) and the nervously eager master (Daniel Gelin); the master and the other man's wife (Danielle Darrieux) who wants to be coaxed into infidelity; the faithless wife inciting and lulling the suspicion of her sanctimonious husband (Fernand Gravet...