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Le Diable au Corps (Devil in the Flesh) (1947) Claude Autant-Lara
Le Diable au Corps (Devil in the Flesh) (1947) Claude Autant-Lara
 
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This is a region-free DVD-R without case or artwork.

In French with English subtitles.

Micheline Presle and Gérard Philipe star in Claude Autant-Lara’s inspired adaptation of Raymond Radiguet’s scandalous 1923 book Le Diable au Corps, which proved to be every bit as controversial as the novel itself.  Despite his reputation as one of the standard bearers of the quality tradition in French cinema, Autant-Lara became something of an agent provocateur in the mid-1940s, his films often bringing him into conflict with the institutions (notably the Church) whilst painting a deeply unflattering picture of French society in general.

This film’s stark and intimate portrayal of an illicit romance between a sexually precocious teenage boy and a married woman would have been enough to offend bourgeois sensibilities of the time, but Autant-Lara goes even further and uses the film to mock the nationalistic fervor that was sweeping his country in the immediate aftermath of WWII.

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5 of 5 Restored version of a French classic August 7, 2017
Reviewer: Mort Peacock from Forestville, NSW Australia  
Interestingly Gerard Phillipe and Micheline Presle were both 25 when they made this movie but he plays a college youth and she an older women both very convincingly. A long movie but compelling and it was another great print from Movie Detective.

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5 of 5 Le Diable au Corps April 24, 2015
Reviewer: Anonymous Person from Armadale, Victoria Australia  
'Devil in the Flesh' treats its subject (a 16 yr old's affair during WW1 with the wife of a soldier) with subtlety and intelligence. The teenager may be a little milder than the one in the novel, but that doesn't matter. The performances are excellent, the images resonant. Thanks, MovieDetective, for making it available.

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