L'amante di una notte

A luxury hotel in the Swiss Lakes. Evelyne (Michèle Morgan) leaves the dance floor just in time to avoid a particularly undignified dance and to put her holiday lover Rémy (Jean Marais) on the train. Rémy calls her a 'petite fille'. Her husband Laurent (Jean Servais) arrives. Laurent also calls her a 'petite fille'. You talk to me as if I'm a child, she complains. He twigs that something's gone on, and her mate Elena covers up for her.

Evelyne drops a glass and just leaves it smashed on the floor. Does she not know how to use a dustpan and brush? She buries her face in the flowers Rémy sends.

What are we to make of Rémy? He goes straight to his mistress in Paris. You are a womaniser, she says, incapable of loving... it might as well be written on your passport.

Evelyne arrives in Paris, looking to be met, unsure. MM does this so well. His commercial travellers' hotel is all too seedy for her and she flees...

An excellent drama about a petite fille being brave at last, a womaniser being in love at last, and their failure to escape the fatefulness of timetables and indeed time.