Édouard et Caroline
1951 Comedy / Romance   
 
Credits
  • Director: Jacques Becker
  • Script: Jacques Becker, Annette Wademant
  • Photo: Robert Lefebvre
  • Music: Jean-Jacques Grünenwald
  • Cast: Daniel Gélin (Edouard Mortier), Anne Vernon (Caroline Mortier), Betty Stockfeld (Lucy Barville), Jacques François (Alain Beauchamp), Jean Toulout (Herbert Barville), Jean Marsac (Un invité), William Tubbs (Spencer Borch), Grégoire Gromoff (Igor), Jean Riveyre (Julien), Yvette Lucas (Mme Leroy)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 88 min; B&W
  • Aka: Edward and Caroline
 
 
 
Summary
Edouard is a headstrong pianist who is married to Caroline, a young woman of bourgeois origins, whose relatives believe she has married beneath her.  Caroline’s pompous uncle invites the couple to an evening party at which Edouard must play the piano.  Before they set out, Edouard and Caroline start to quarrel...

Review
Although pretty lightweight compared with some of Jacques Becker’s other films (particularly Casque d’Or which immidately followed it), Édouard et Caroline is a pleasing comedy of manners which follows the ups and downs of a newly married couple.  As in his earlier, similar, film, Antoine et Antoinette , Becker observes married life with tenderness and a canny perceptiveness.

© James Travers 2002


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