Pension Mimosas

Pension Mimosas is a 1935 French film directed by Jacques Feyder. Based on an original scenario by Feyder and Charles Spaak, it is a psychological drama set largely in a small hotel on the Cte dAzur, and it provided Franoise Rosay with one of the most substantial acting roles of her career.

1934. Pierre, now a young man, is living in Paris among gamblers and gangsters, and he still plays upon the feelings of his former adoptive parents to extract money from them. Louise makes him return to the Pension Mimosas and find a job, but she now develops an ambiguous affection for him. To please him, she even invites his mistress Nelly to join him in the hotel. The two women soon become rivals, while Pierre accumulates debts. Louise reveals Nellys whereabouts to her old protector who comes to take her back. In despair Pierre kills himself, while Louise has gone to the casino under an assumed identity to win the money to pay his debts.Pension Mimosas was the second of three films which Jacques Feyder made in swift succession on his return to France after his unsatisfactory experience in Hollywood. All three films were developed in conjunction with the scenarist Charles Spaak and included major roles for Feyders wife Franoise Rosay, but each told a different kind of story and employed a distinctly different style of filming. Whereas Le Grand Jeu 1934 was a fastmoving melodrama with some exotic settings, and the later La Kermesse hroque would be a satirical period farce, Pension Mimosas presented a more measured contemporary drama. ........

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