This is definitely a fun film to look at: fantastic colour, sets and costumes, and the powdery, lipsticky glamour of 35-year-old Martine Carol, a blonde like Zola's Nana, but now sporting the red hair. She is, of course, too old for the role - in the novel Nana, like the Second Empire, is a filthy pubescent trollop, decadent and parasitic fly. To mis(quote) Hugo: in short, 15 years!
Eventually she dies in smallpox, her moral rot now the physical one, too.
Zola? Maybe not.
Eventually she dies in smallpox, her moral rot now the physical one, too.
Zola? Maybe not.