Like most Romantic writers, Musset was his own favorite subject. Here the protagonist is being courted simultaneously by a cynical libertine and a shy Romantic—both of whom are aspects of the author. The Romantic, mistakenly believing himself betrayed by his friend and rival, dies brokenhearted, whereupon the other man rejects Marianne. (French, 93 minutes)

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