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Four Flights to Love

1939 · 91 min

A sweeping, sorrowful romance that moves from tender happiness to wartime loss and quiet sacrifice, asking patience and rewarding it with feeling.

Overview
In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • love
    • grief
    • war
    • parenthood
    • redemption
    Places
    • big city
    • hospital
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action3
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism7
    Romance6
    Tension4
    Darkness6
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight8

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    Details

    Genres
    war, drama, romance
    Directed by
    Abel Gance
    Written by
    Abel Gance, Joseph Than
    Starring
    Fernand Gravey, Micheline Presle, Robert Le Vigan, Elvira Popescu, André Alerme, Monique Rolland, Robert Pizani, Jane Marken
    Cinematography
    Christian Matras
    Runtime
    91 min
    Country
    France
    Languages
    French

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