Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstances to welcome a little boy Pierre, whose father is in jail, into their home. Which makes Louise Noblet all the happier as she can't have children herself. But, after a while, Pierre's father is released from prison and reclaims his son... Time passes and Pierre, now a young adult, lives in Paris more or less on the wrong side of the law. He has a mistress, Nelly, who does not say no to other men's money... Louise, who still loves Pierre as her own son, wants only one thing - to help him get by.
Acting
Françoise Rosay's face contains entire novels of longing.
Direction
Feyder turns a boarding house into a stage for doom.
Director
Jacques Feyder
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Arletty, playing the boarding house regular Kid Parasol, would become legendary in 'Children of Paradise' the same year—Feyder helped launch her stardom.
This was Feyder's return to France after his Hollywood exile; critics saw it as a farewell to humanism before the coming war.
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