An elegant comedy of manners, based on W. Somerset Maugham's "Theatre". For once, the English-dubbed version can be recommended. Expert impersonators do the voices of Lilli Palmer and Charles Boyer, and the dubbing of the rest of the cast is on a similarly extremely high level. This film was actually an Austrian-French co-production, with 2nd unit work by Jean Sorel in London. ...
Classic screen stars James Mason and Danielle Darrieux each starred in several Max Ophüls projects but never appeared together in an Ophüls movie. The film poses the question of what could have been
