Forbidden Fruit (1952)

Original title

Le Fruit défendu

Directed by

Henri Verneuil

Genre

romance, drama

Country

France

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married doctor and father in a French provincial city starts an affair with a free-spirited younger woman. His passions threaten to destroy his family and career, but the story avoids the novel's dark ending.

romantictragictensebittersweetvisually lushrestrainedintimatemelancholic

What happens

Forbidden Fruit (French: Le Fruit défendu) is a 1952 French drama film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Fernandel, Françoise Arnoul and Claude Nollier. Drawn from the novel Act of Passion (Lettre à mon juge) by Georges Simenon, it omits the book's grim resolution and instead invents a happy ending. The story it tells is of a doctor in a provincial city with a devoted wife and children who falls for a sexy but transient young woman and then loses her before his domestic and professional life are both ruined. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris and on location around Marseille. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rino Mondellini with costumes by Pierre Balmain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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