A dream walks into reality—literally. Now he's chasing a stranger through a French town.
Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next morning, he cannot believe his eyes: the creature of the dream is there by the side of the road, in the flesh! The woman accepts to drive Renaud to Montargis but it is only after she has dropped him off there that he realizes that what he experienced for her was love at first sight. He then decides not to return to Paris but to try and find the wonderful stranger in Montargis. He discovers that the woman's name is Clara and that she is the member of a drama company.
Acting
Ludmilla Tchérina—real ballerina bringing otherworldly grace.
Cinematography
Dreamy post-war French countryside, all soft light and longing.
Direction
Decoin blurring fantasy and reality with subtle precision.
Director
Henri Decoin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ludmilla Tchérina was a prima ballerina with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo before acting; this was her first major dramatic role.
The film captures post-war French cinema's obsession with fatalistic romance and the 'femme fatale as unreachable ideal'—think Carné but softer.
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