Le mariage de Chiffon (1942)

Director:

Claude Autant-Lara

Writers:

Jean Aurenche (adaptation), Marcel Blondeau (adaptation),

Stars:

Odette Joyeux, André Luguet, Jacques Dumesnil

Cast

Credited cast:
Odette Joyeux	...	Corysande 'Chiffon'
André Luguet	...	Le duc d'Aubières
Jacques Dumesnil	...	Max de Bray
Pierre Larquey	...	Jean
Robert Le Vigan	...	L'huissier
Suzanne Dantès	...	Madame de Bray
Louis Seigner	...	Philippe de Bray
Georges Vitray	...	Van Doren
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bernard Blier	...	Le garçon d'hôtel
Jean Boissemond
Raymond Bussières	...	Marcel Férez
Monette Dinay	...	Alice de Liron
Max Doria
France Ellys	...	Sophie
Luce Fabiole	...	La couturière

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

based on novel

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

6 August 1942 (France)

Also Known As:

Casamento de Chiffon

Company Credits

Production Co:

La Société des Films Sirius

Technical Specs

Runtime:

103 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Version of Le mariage de Chiffon (1918)

User Reviews

Some kind of rehearsal.

Although it is a pleasant movie ,it seems like a draft, a rehearsal for Autant-Lara's next movie "douce".

Autant-Lara was mainly known for his collaborations with Lehmann (three in all, one of them "fric frac" is particularly memorable).During the Occupation he began to work on his own and he would become an important artist with such works as "douce "(1943)"le diable au corps"(1946) "l'auberge rouge" (1951)or "la traversée de Paris" (1956).

"Le marriage de chiffon" is his first real work.It casts Odette Joyeux as Chiffon (her nickname) an aristocrat offbeat young girl who finds it hard to live in a milieu full of social conventions.Her mother (Suzanne Dantès,whose strident playing seems almost unbearable today),a widow,wants her to marry a wealthy noble military man whom she met at a railway station.Although the young girl is not aware of it,she's in love with her uncle (by marriage!).But Claude Autant-Lara's dice are loaded because even if this uncle is a flying pioneer and a broke man,he's still an aristocrat.A liberal aristocrat is no misalliance.Of course she's much younger than him,and besides he's got a mistress,but it's only a question of social class.

That's why "le marriage de chiffon" does not really satisfy.Hotheaded Autant-Lara adjusted the fire the next year and it became a wholesale massacre.Casting again Odette Joyeux as an aristocrat ingenuous person,he pitted her milieu against the plebeian one.And it was his masterpiece,"douce" ,which remains today as fascinating as it was in 1943.Such is not the case of "le marriage de chiffon" which may seem old hat for a lot of people today.