Sans lendemain

Director: Max Ophuls

1939 / 82min / DCP

Seduced and abandoned with a young son to support, Evelyn (Edwige Feuillère) keeps the lights on by hoochie coo dancing in a sleazy nightclub—until a former flame appears on the scene, and lends her enough money to put up a facade of propriety. Per Ophuls, the film, which makes deft and innovative use of flashbacks and is lent a lyric sheen by cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan, was “born of my impressions of Paris, the sensations and the episodes lived during the course of many nights, in places and among people whose very mention shocks the upright citizen. I had always been attracted to the universe of pimps and girls, the universe in which rested so many unknown soldiers of love. I often dreamed of making a film truly devoted to this subject. A film whose script would come from a modern Maupassant.”

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Part of Max Ophuls: Motion Within Motion