This is a region-free DVD-R without case or artwork.In French with English subtitles.Micheline Presle and Gérard Philipe star in Claude Autant-Lara’s inspired adaptation of Raymond Radiguet’s scandalous 1923 book Le Diable au Corps, which proved to be every bit as controversial as the novel itself. Despite his reputation as one of the standard bearers of the quality tradition in French cinema, Autant-Lara became something of an agent provocateur in the mid-1940s, his films often bringing him into conflict with the institutions (notably the Church) whilst painting a deeply unflattering picture of French society in general.This film’s stark and intimate portrayal of an illicit romance between a sexually precocious teenage boy and a married woman would have been enough to offend bourgeois sensibilities of the time, but Autant-Lara goes even further and uses the film to mock the nationalistic fervor that was sweeping his country in the immediate aftermath of WWII.
