Word: rosay
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...moldering Venetian palazzo in the late 19th century sit two desiccated women. Miss Bordereau (Franchise Rosay) is 100 or so and has wrung life dry; her old-maid niece. Miss Tina (Wendy Hiller), has had life squeezed out of her. In swirls a worldly dandy, Henry Jarvis...
...Jean-Pierre Aumont, the milkman, display the irrespressible smile that refuses to take life seriously. Although Chief Inspector Bray could appear in almost any country, the snooping vicar, played by Louis Jouvet, is far too sharp and sly for the English countryside. The Molyneux, however, played by Francoise Rosay and Michel Simon do an extremely good caricature of threadbare social-climbing, although Simon achieves part of his success through a slight resemblance to Charles Laughton...
...help of others. Autant-Lara's camera consciously stays outside his characters, giving the picture a two-dimensional effect that emphasizes the flat drabness to which the women have been reduced. Michele Morgan gives a hauntingly acute performance as the daughter impervious to either kindness or insult, and Francoise Rosay is suitably haughty as the mother...
...Colette story, is the intriguing yarn of a newlywed wife, who is jealous of her husband's affection for his pet cat. Pride, directed by Claude (Devil in the Flesh) Autant-Lara, is a mordant study of an impoverished, aristocratic mother and daughter (well played by Franchise Rosay and Michele Morgan). The best episode is Gluttony, a Rabelaisian sketch written and directed by Carlo Rim, about a handsome doctor, who seeks shelter during a storm in the home of a peasant. There he is taken with the peasant's tasty cheese as well as with his pretty wife...
Almost all the action takes place in the Hotel Bijon, a name singularly appropriate because the proprietress, Madame Rose (Francoise Rosay), herself dabbles in stolen baubles. The Hotel Bijon isn't exactly the Waldorf of Paris--as a matter of fact, its dusty brick walls conceal quite a bit of shady activity. Daytime scenes are taken up with the stolen goods racket. I suspect the Boston censors have flourished their knives at the nighttime scenes, but not so much that the results unduly tax the imagination...