Monelle

The celebrated composer Gérard Favier is deeply attached to his wife Sylvia. The couple meet Monelle, a gifted young pianist who admires Favier, and the composer takes her under his wing and carries her to success in short order. But when a gossip paper writes that there is an affair between the teacher and his pupil, the lives of all three are shaken and the rumour itself starts to take the place of the truth. In Henri Decoin’s hundred and five minute French film, Louis Jouvet plays Favier, Dany Robin plays Monelle and Renée Devillers plays Sylvia. It was released in 1948 and tells, from inside the world of music, how talk can break a marriage.