Jean-Pierre, a twenty-three-year-old Belgian theater actor, is engaged to a charming seamstress, Anne Jacquemin, who dreams of nothing else but a quiet married life with children. Belonging to a Brussels company, Jean-Pierre wants to experience more and decides to join a stock company that performs in the South of France. There he meets Juliette Allard, a young dancer who is the lookalike of Anne. As beautiful as her, she is more mysterious and fascinating than Anne. Jean-Pierre loves both: will he be able to choose between these two equally appealing women?
Acting
Claude Jade's dual performance—subtle shifts between warmth and aloofness.
Cinematography
Sun-drenched South of France vs. muted Brussels—visual metaphor for choice.
Direction
Faber's theater background bleeds into intimate, stage-like compositions.
Director
Jacques Faber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Claude Jade was Truffaut's muse in 'Stolen Kisses' and 'Bed and Board'; this was her rare dual role.
The doppelgänger trope here inverts German Romanticism—instead of supernatural warning, it's banal male indecision dressed as fate.
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