The Tender Enemy

1936
6.5| 1h9m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 24 October 1936 Released
Producted By: Eden Productions
Country: France
Budget: 0
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Line, Annette's daughter, is about to marry a man she's not in love with. At the engagement party three ghosts revisit their disastrous relationships with Annette and decide to take action to help Line.

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Director

Max Ophüls

Production Companies

Eden Productions

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Simone Berriau as Annette Dupont, l'Ennemie
Janine Darcey as La Cousine (uncredited)
Roger Legris as Le Saint-Cyrien (uncredited)
Germaine Reuver as Tante Jette (uncredited)

The Tender Enemy Audience Reviews

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
dbdumonteil This is one of the rare movies in Ophuls' work were the woman is not sacrificed.The victims here are rather the two men,or rather their ghosts ...who come back on Line's wedding day.They are her father and her mother's lover, a lion tamer.It is not really a tale of fantasy though.The ghosts' role is to introduce the flashbacks .They exchange pleasant lines: "how annoying it is to feel the living passing through you!" and after realizing they were unhappy during their earthly ride,they decide to make LIne marry the man she really loves.This is an odd disconcerting film and the characters have not the substance they have in the director's other works.There's a good use of music: the popular waltz "Froufrou" (=rustle),"Aimer" sung by an opera singer and the ironic little tune "Il était un petit navire " (there was a little ship which had never sailed away).But one cannot place "Tendre Ennemie" among Ophuls' best works.