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"L'Envers du Music Hall" is a 1913 novella by Colette. Twenty years later the now renown author of "Gigi" used its conventional narrative for one of the rare script she wrote herself. It is the story of a pure and innocent country girl confronted with the sordid and corrupt urban world of glossy entertainment and moral corruption.
Not only she remains pure and innocent but she also find pure love! The film would be nothing more than a sensational melodrama if it was not directed by Max Ophuls. There are several outstanding sequences in the film, mainly set in the back stage of the theatre as we see the working lives of the thespians. At one point a complete 360% camera movement presents the whole of the set of one of the revue numbers. And there are a number of beautifully executed track and crane shots. Max Ophuls loved the theatre and this rarely screened film demonstrates it.
To attend to this presentation in person please reserve your seat HERE.
"L'Envers du Music Hall" is a 1913 novella by Colette. Twenty years later the now renown author of "Gigi" used its conventional narrative for one of the rare script she wrote herself. It is the story of a pure and innocent country girl confronted with the sordid and corrupt urban world of glossy entertainment and moral corruption.
Not only she remains pure and innocent but she also find pure love! The film would be nothing more than a sensational melodrama if it was not directed by Max Ophuls. There are several outstanding sequences in the film, mainly set in the back stage of the theatre as we see the working lives of the thespians. At one point a complete 360% camera movement presents the whole of the set of one of the revue numbers. And there are a number of beautifully executed track and crane shots. Max Ophuls loved the theatre and this rarely screened film demonstrates it.