.....if Jacques ,the painter ,reneges on his foolish passion for Nora,a hysterical matron who wants to keep him in her baroque castle ;the scene where the fair knight climbs upon the winded up drawbridge ,then pursued by a pack,it has to be seen to be believed! One of the first talkies by Gaston Roudès,it bears the appropriate scars of its era: the playing is grandiloquent,old-fashioned ,ranting ,as though the three principals were still in the silent age .
A painter lives with his patron (and soon to be lover) in her fairytale-like Château.But it's 1914 and duty calls .Jacques becomes a hero (the war lasts hardly 10 min on the screen) and gets married with ...another girl ,Louise Liègeois (sic);his former mistress is not prepared to accept it and interferes in the couple's life ,demanding a portrait of her as a Valkyrie.
This melodrama has not worn well: as I wrote above ,the playing has become laughable ,and it's so slow-moving the action could be boiled down to half-an-hour.
A painter lives with his patron (and soon to be lover) in her fairytale-like Château.But it's 1914 and duty calls .Jacques becomes a hero (the war lasts hardly 10 min on the screen) and gets married with ...another girl ,Louise Liègeois (sic);his former mistress is not prepared to accept it and interferes in the couple's life ,demanding a portrait of her as a Valkyrie.
This melodrama has not worn well: as I wrote above ,the playing has become laughable ,and it's so slow-moving the action could be boiled down to half-an-hour.
