Released
Quadrille
January 29 1938 (almost 87 years ago)Rating
Based on
17 reviews
- Director: Sacha Guitry
- Genres: Romance, Comedy
- Runtime: 1 h 35 m
- Country: France
- Companies: Les Films Modernes, Productions Emile Natan
The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.