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Piège pour Cendrillon aka A Trap for Cinderella (1965) 60's French Amnesia Noir
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"A great Woman's Noir"
Director André Cayatte (Justice est faite, We Are All Murderers, Avant le déluge)
Written by André Cayatte, Sébastien Japrisot, & Jean Anouilh and based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel Piège pour Cendrillon.
The Cinenatography was by Armand Thirard, Music was by Louiguy.
The film stars Dany Carrel as Michèle Isola / Dominique Loï, Madeleine Robinson as Jeanne Mureau, Hubert Noël as François, Jean Gaven as Gabriel, René Dary as doctor Doulin, Francis Nani as Serge, Robert Dalban as the garage owner.
The Story
A young woman played by Dany Carrel wakes up in a hospital severely burned. She has no memory of what happened. the same terrible fire has claimed the life of another woman her cousin.
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The two women involved in the incident are Michèle Isola aka "Mi" a heiress to a fashion company that manufactures popular brand of woman's shoe, and her poor cousin Dominique Loï, aka "Do" who until recently worked in Paris garage.
As girls, Michèle lived with the Loi family after her mother and father died. The two spent lot of time together, becoming inseparable and know as Do and Mi. They were finally separated from each other, a few years later when Mi's Aunt Elinor Raffermi, who was also her godmother, whisks her away to live in Italy.
Elinor is a very wealthy, women's shoe designer, living in Milan, Italy. She basically adopts Mi as the heir to her fashion line.
So its like a take on both the fairy tale "Cinderella" and the ""The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," Mi becomes the girl with all the advantages that money can by, while Do struggles in life working in a garage and living in a flop with one of the mechanics.
The woman in the hospital recovering from severe burns is also struggling with PTSD which has caused, psychological retrograde amnesia. She is identified as Mi by her former nanny Jean Murneau.
Once out of the hospital Mi is again cared for by Jean who works with her on getting her to remember her past.
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We get the story in Mi's voice over, which leads us to various flashbacks. Other flashbacks result from answers from other possibly unreliable narrators, to questions asked by Mi, as she tries like a de facto detective to find clues to open the door to remembering her past and recover her life.
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| Dany Carrel as Mi / Do |
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Things start tilting towards Noirsville when certain statements by Jean, Mi's memories, and other information begin to inform Mi more and more of the past events. She accumulates enough bits and pieces that she begins to wonder enough about some of the fragmented memories and the conflicting things Jean has been telling her, that she escapes from the Raffermi mansion and goes to Paris to see what she can discover. All she has for an address is in the inside of a Raffermi shoe she is carrying.
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At the store she meets Francois who was one of Mi's lovers, though she doesn't remember him. She asks him if he knew Jean Murneau. He tells her slightly, all he knew was you hated each other. When she questions him about Dominique he tells her she was the biggest bitch of all. It was Dominique who broke us up three months before the fire. He's glad she's dead.
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| Hubert Noël as François |
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Mi next goes to the garage where Dominique worked after finding out the address after searching through old newspaper articles about the fire. At the garage she asks to talk to someone who knew her.
There she discovers Do had a boyfriend named Gabriel. Gabriel tells Mi how they met and were happy and then how she, Mi showing up at the garage in a chance encounter, eventually broke them up. He relates the story also of her, Mi, seducing him when she trapped him in an elevator.
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| Jean Gaven as Gabriel |
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| Madeleine Robinson as Jeanne Mureau lt. |
Once Do and Mi are together again events start spiraling quickly. This results in Mi offering Do a job in her household, when her hanging out with Mi looses Do her job. It was on a short getaway vacation in a small, country house, where the fire took place.
Noirsville
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This is a good Woman's Noir with a lot of twists that keeps you guessing right to the end. Dany Carrel and Jean Gavin shoulder a lot of the film. Here's a film that is more Noir story-wise than highly visually stylistic. Entertaining enough to keep you interested, 7/10
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