The Crimson Curtain

Le Rideau cramoisi

1952·45'

Alexandre Astruc

Drama

French

Letterboxd TMDB #258430

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A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly promoted, the officer (Jean-Claude Pascal) is quartered by a dull bourgeois couple who treat him with a cold politeness bordering on indifference.

Cast

Anouk Aimée Albertine Jean-Claude Pascal L'officier

Marguerite Garcya Albertine's mother Jim Gérald Albertine's father Yves Furet