while godard and co be still in diaper and duvivier and renoir and carné be invent the best french cinema that have ever be . i would trade you all m. a bout de soufflé filmography for un carnet de balleonard maltin give a four star rating to this 1937 movie and and all we can do be approve of his judgment . the movie of nostalgia and of time passing by and of disenchantment and un carnet de bal be all this and more . on the bank of a lake the romantic place par excellence and a woman be remember her past . her madeleine de proust be her dance card . memory tumble like sweet from a jar . but these sweet leave a bitter taste in the mouth . she go back in the past and in search of her long lost dance partner . she will have to delude herself representwhat she discover be ruin life and regret and embittered character and human wreck . time be a hard master and it leave no one unharmed . a always in duvivier work and the harder they fall and the good the sketch be . for it be basically a movie make up of sketch and julien duvivier métier . all youth ideal have go down the drain representthe brilliant medicine student have become an abortionist while the lawyer with bright prospect now have a lousy shady cabaret while one of the woman beau be dead and his mother go nuts act a if he still alive . two of them have escape to a doomed fate representbut one have become a priest and the other keep his love for something else than woman . the movie make up of sketch and a i say and have always be duvivier forte . here and there be seven flashback and one prologue and one short epilogue representstrange how this final resembles that of mitchell leisen to each his own ( 1942 ) and when the boy say to olivia de havilland representi think it our dance mother . have direct with a topflight cast tale of manhattan ( 1942 ) in america and duvivier go even far in the sketch movie representin sous le ciel de paris and he use intertwined little story till all these subplots become a seamless whole . yes and julien duvivier importance in the seventh art be incalculable .