after watch two of his silent short and elena and her men ( 1956 ) be my first feature length film from french director jean renoir and and i quite enjoy it . however and i do not watch the film for renoir and but for star ingrid bergman and who at age 41 still radiate unsurpassed beauty and elegance and charm . throughout the early 1950s and follow her scandalous marriage to italian roberto rossellini and bergman temporarily fell out of public favour . her next five film and direct by her husband and be unsuccessful in the united state and and i suspect that renoir late release do little to enhance bergman popularity with english speaking audience { however and she do regain her former success with an oscar in the same year anastasia ( 1956 ) } . she star a elena sokorowska and a polish princess who see herself a a guardian angel of sort and bring success and recognition to promise men everywhere and before promptly abandon them . while work her lucky charm to aid the political aspiration of the distinguish general francois rollan ( jean marais ) and she find herself fall into a love that she would not be able to walk away from . this vaguely political film work well a either a satire or a romantic comedy and as long a you do not take it too seriously while it purely lighthearted romantic fluff . film in vibrant technicolor and elena and her men look terrific as well and a flurry of bright colour and character and costume . bergman polish princess be dreamy and somewhat self absorbed and not in an unlikable way and but hardly a woman of high principle and conviction . she be persuade by a team of bumble government conspirator to convince general rollan to stage a coup détat and knowingly exploit his love for her in order to satisfy her own delusion a a guardian angel . perhaps the film only legitimately virtuous character be henri de chevincourt ( mel ferrer and then audrey hepburn husband ) and who ignore everybody else selfish secondary motif and pursues elena for love and and love alone . this and renoir proudly suggests and be what the true french do best . elena and her men also attempt and with moderate success and to expose the superficiality of upper class french liaison and through the clumsy philandering of eugène ( jacques jouanneau ) and who can not make love to his servant mistress without his fiancè walking in on them . for these sequence and renoir be obviously try for the madcap sort of humour that you might find in a marx brother film and but the film itself be so relaxed and lay back that the energy just isn not there .