The Last Penny (1946)

Original title

Le Dernier Sou

Directed by

André Cayatte

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More films like this

How it feels

A woman faces consequences after making films for a collaborationist company during World War Two. The story follows her arrest and the personal fallout after the war ends.

melancholictenseslow-burnbleaksombernostalgicuneasy

What happens

The Last Penny (French: Le dernier sou) is a 1946 French drama film directed by André Cayatte and starring Ginette Leclerc, Gilbert Gil and Fernand Charpin. It was one of three films Leclerc appeared in for the collaborationist Continental Films, which she believed led to her arrest by the authorities following the Liberation. Although it was made during the Second World War the film was not released until March 1946. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Night Warning (1946)
• A Lover's Return (1946)
• Les démons de l'aube (1946)
• Devil and the Angel (1946)
• Le Pays sans étoiles (1946)
• Gates of the Night (1946)
• Goodbye Darling (1946)
• The Idiot (1946)
• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.