Sylvie et le fantôme
Since the heyday of Romanticism, gallant ghosts have haunted our imaginations. Sometimes troubling, sometimes amusing, they have crossed continents and eras, as well as film genres, as the films gathered here bear witness. Evanescent and elusive, these romantic ghosts are of course a source of fantasy, but they also inhabit cinema marvelously well, where they defy time, genre and mise-en-scène, between appearance and disappearance.
Sylvie, a romantic young woman, falls in love with Alain de Francigny, a man featured in a painting in her father's castle. Her father hires an actor to play the young man's ghost. But two suitors complicate the situation. And the real ghost of Alain de Francigny joins them.
Claude Autant-Lara
Claude Autant-Lara is a French film director. He was also a screenwriter, costume designer, art director and sometime actor. He achieved success with his films Fric-Frac (1939) and Douce (1943), then, after the Second World War, with his adaptation of Raymond Radiguet's novel, Le Diable au corps (1947), L'Auberge rouge (1951), Le Blé en herbe (1954), Le Rouge et le Noir (1954) (adaptation of Stendhal's novel) and, above all, La Traversée de Paris (1956), based on the short story by Marcel Aymé. President of the Syndicat des techniciens from 1948 to 1954, then of the Fédération nationale du spectacle CGT until 1963, he became close to the Front national in the 1980s.
