War tore them apart, but secrets bloom in the silence between letters.
A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to leave his darling crying... and giving birth to a child.
Acting
Madeleine Ozeray's face could stop traffic in 1937.
Direction
Bernard's tracking shots through the flower shop are *chef's kiss*.
Costume
Thérèse's working-class frocks vs. Marie-Louise's furs tell the whole story.
Director
Raymond Bernard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the Popular Front era, the film's sympathetic portrayal of unwed motherhood was politically charged—unwed mothers could still be imprisoned in France until 1972.
Raymond Bernard shot the war sequences before building the romance, reportedly to use actual military equipment on loan—rare for 1937.
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