The first movie starring gorgeous Edwige Feuillère and heartthrob Pierre-Richard Willm.This first effort seems old-fashioned and terribly kitsch today ,an extravagant melodrama which might possess some appeal for those whose taste run that way though.
Audrey finds a job of music teacher in a chic school ,run by horrible spinsters where her Mona Lisa smile does not win her colleagues' esteem;a M.O.about to leave for the broader horizons of Malaysia proposes marriage to her;she hesitates ,but her smoking not allowed in the posh school is the straw that breaks the camel's back:soon she is sailing on a luxury liner with a new husband .
Audrey has not been on the ship all of five minutes that she meets a prince of Malaysia ,Selim,and it's (almost) love at first sight.
In Malaysia,where English -all the French actors portray English people- "collaborate" with natives ,Audrey ,who threatens to become another exotic Madame Bovary writes article,much to the macho hubby's displeasure :" you can write about fashion,cooking and other trivia !but don't you ever dabble in politics and social concerns!"
Lady Brandmore and her nasty sister Patricia spy on her and discovers she's in love with Prince Selim who confided to her that "although a powerful noble,he 's been an outcast all of his life ;when he studied in England,the racist students kept him in the background ,and now he is a solitary man whose burden is too heavy for his shoulders .
Audrey does not want to cheat on her husband and she decides she will leave the country ;but thanks to a cerebral fever and diplomatic problems with a rubber factory (you read well), fate has decreed otherwise.
Willm and Feuillère make an attractive pair,tangled in a still Victorian world ;Gabrielle Dorziat epitomizes the holier-than-thou chic lady who spends her time in what she calls "charity " ,with consummate talent:the scene where she hypocritically pretends she approves of her husband's decisions concerning the M.O.,his mistreated wife and the prince is the comic relief such a screenplay is desperately in need of.
The second time Feuillère and Willm teamed up was much more successful :"La Duchesse De Langeais" from Honoré De Balzac.(Jacques De Baroncelli,1942)
Audrey finds a job of music teacher in a chic school ,run by horrible spinsters where her Mona Lisa smile does not win her colleagues' esteem;a M.O.about to leave for the broader horizons of Malaysia proposes marriage to her;she hesitates ,but her smoking not allowed in the posh school is the straw that breaks the camel's back:soon she is sailing on a luxury liner with a new husband .
Audrey has not been on the ship all of five minutes that she meets a prince of Malaysia ,Selim,and it's (almost) love at first sight.
In Malaysia,where English -all the French actors portray English people- "collaborate" with natives ,Audrey ,who threatens to become another exotic Madame Bovary writes article,much to the macho hubby's displeasure :" you can write about fashion,cooking and other trivia !but don't you ever dabble in politics and social concerns!"
Lady Brandmore and her nasty sister Patricia spy on her and discovers she's in love with Prince Selim who confided to her that "although a powerful noble,he 's been an outcast all of his life ;when he studied in England,the racist students kept him in the background ,and now he is a solitary man whose burden is too heavy for his shoulders .
Audrey does not want to cheat on her husband and she decides she will leave the country ;but thanks to a cerebral fever and diplomatic problems with a rubber factory (you read well), fate has decreed otherwise.
Willm and Feuillère make an attractive pair,tangled in a still Victorian world ;Gabrielle Dorziat epitomizes the holier-than-thou chic lady who spends her time in what she calls "charity " ,with consummate talent:the scene where she hypocritically pretends she approves of her husband's decisions concerning the M.O.,his mistreated wife and the prince is the comic relief such a screenplay is desperately in need of.
The second time Feuillère and Willm teamed up was much more successful :"La Duchesse De Langeais" from Honoré De Balzac.(Jacques De Baroncelli,1942)
