After the last pictures , a warning was issued on the screen :" don't let anybody out! ; if ,in those troubled times,you prefer a happy ending ,this is how it could have ended": so the wife forgives her husband, who,remembering the good times(the first marvelous sequences) ,falls in love with her again.This ending was filmed to be able to sell the movie abroad ,but neither director Decoin, nor writer Jeanson approve of it .Now the pessimistic denouement is generally screened.
Decoin's movies fall into two genres :the light witty comedy (such as "battements de coeur" ) and the film noir at its darkest("Non Coupable " "la fille du diable" ); "les amoureux sont seuls au monde " belongs to the latter category ,although it featured one of the happiest beginning Decoin had ever filmed : the meeting in the cafe , the wedding , the boy who sells good-luck charms (who ironically will get lucky himself ,his ludicrous shop being almost an insult to the composer's despair ;the ball at the wedding is one of these magnificent populist scenes only the great directors can achieve (Renoir,Duvivier,Becker): the "fancy for a dance grandma?"echoes to a similar scene in "La belle équipe" which incidentally features two endings too.
Perhaps more than Louis Jouvet,it's Renée Devillers who is the stand out; the lovers ,whatever their age may be ,are lonely in this cruel world where the gutter press cashes on the situation when a famous maestro has a young protegee (Dany Robin) play in his orchestra ; the gossips run rampant even before the concert makes the headlines : both Manelle's boyfriend (Philippe Lemaire ) and her friend (Brigitte Auber) exchange nasty lines when the musicians are playing,deaf to the music.
Maybe too slow-moving, the movie captivates ,because of this woman who lives every day to love her husband ,to make him happy ;nothing else fits in her plans ,so when she loses him ,she loses everything .
"Sylvia is still living in this imbecile's mind ", an idiot who epitomizes the whole world of the gossip press and their readers who destroyed all this happiness of a luminous day in a small inn in the forest.
Decoin's movies fall into two genres :the light witty comedy (such as "battements de coeur" ) and the film noir at its darkest("Non Coupable " "la fille du diable" ); "les amoureux sont seuls au monde " belongs to the latter category ,although it featured one of the happiest beginning Decoin had ever filmed : the meeting in the cafe , the wedding , the boy who sells good-luck charms (who ironically will get lucky himself ,his ludicrous shop being almost an insult to the composer's despair ;the ball at the wedding is one of these magnificent populist scenes only the great directors can achieve (Renoir,Duvivier,Becker): the "fancy for a dance grandma?"echoes to a similar scene in "La belle équipe" which incidentally features two endings too.
Perhaps more than Louis Jouvet,it's Renée Devillers who is the stand out; the lovers ,whatever their age may be ,are lonely in this cruel world where the gutter press cashes on the situation when a famous maestro has a young protegee (Dany Robin) play in his orchestra ; the gossips run rampant even before the concert makes the headlines : both Manelle's boyfriend (Philippe Lemaire ) and her friend (Brigitte Auber) exchange nasty lines when the musicians are playing,deaf to the music.
Maybe too slow-moving, the movie captivates ,because of this woman who lives every day to love her husband ,to make him happy ;nothing else fits in her plans ,so when she loses him ,she loses everything .
"Sylvia is still living in this imbecile's mind ", an idiot who epitomizes the whole world of the gossip press and their readers who destroyed all this happiness of a luminous day in a small inn in the forest.
