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
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.
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.
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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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