Marguerite of the Night (1955)

Original title

Marguerite de la nuit

Directed by

Claude Autant-Lara

Genre

drama film, fantasy film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An older pedant makes a deal with Satan to regain his youth. The film follows the strange and dark consequences of that bargain.

melancholicdreamlikefairy-talemeditativewhimsicaldarkslow-burnhaunting

What happens

Marguerite de la nuit (US title: Marguerite of the Night) is a 1955 French language motion picture fantasy drama directed by Claude Autant-Lara, and written by Ghislaine Autant-Lara (screenplay & dialogue) and Gabriel Arout (adaptation), based on novel by Pierre Dumarchais. The film stars Michèle Morgan and Yves Montand. It tells the story of an older pedant who buys adolescence from Satan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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