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Directed by Julien Duvivier

La fête à Henriette

1h 49m

Directed by Julien Duvivier • 1952 • France
Starring Dany Robin, Michel Auclair, Hildegard Knef

This enchantingly inventive comic jewel—the inspiration for the Audrey Hepburn remake PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES—is built around a delightfully self-reflexive premise: two screenwriters, torn over whether they should pen a lightweight romantic comedy or a macabre thriller, devise dueling scenarios. As the film they imagine comes to life before our eyes, our heroine, Henriette (Dany Robin), finds herself pulled into increasingly outlandish misadventures.

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