Directed by Jeanne Moreau
In the summer of 1939, teenage Marie (Laetitia Chaveau)returns for the summer to her grandmother’s country home for the where she is intrigued to learn that an out-of-wedlock birth has scandalized the village and that a handsome, young doctor has set up shop. Director Jeanne Moreau catalogs life’s changes, large and small, with a charmingly light touch in this coming-of-age tale set against the looming shadow of war.
Screenwriter: Henriette Jelinek, J. Moreau. Cast: Laetitia Chauveau, Simone Signoret, Edith Clever.
35mm, color, in French with English subtitles, 90 min.
