Les Grandes Manœuvres

LES GRANDES MANOEUVRES (a.k.a. THE GRAND MANEUVER) is a wonderfully autumnal work from Rene Clair—it was also his first film in color, and he uses the production design and the story, coupled with the range of available hues, to impart a dreamlike quality to plot, a romantic escapade by a vain military officer on the eve of World War I. Michele Morgan is the object of Gerard Phillipe’s affections in this wistful tale of a world and an era gone by.

Starring Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Jean Desailly