Returning late from a romantic date, a man searches for every possible and unimaginable excuse to explain his lateness to his wife. His guilt turns on him when he finds out she's not home. The character created by Sasha Guitry in 1915, eaten away by jealousy, then imagines all her adventures.
Acting
Gélin's sweating, stammering descent into self-made hell.
Writing
Sasha Guitry's 1915 source: still brutally relevant.
Director
Raymond Rouleau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Raymond Rouleau was primarily a theatre director; this was one of his rare film outings, shot with stage-like precision.
Sasha Guitry's 1915 play was banned by censors for 'immorality'—the 1976 adaptation could finally show what bourgeois marriage really looked like.
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