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The Eternal Return

The Eternal Return

1943, Movie, 1h 52min

Jean Cocteau—who wrote the script in his typical blend of the dreamlike and the mythic—and director Jean Delannoy transpose the immortal tale of Tristan and Isolde to 1940s France in this rhapsodic romantic fantasy starring the dashing Jean Marais as Patrice, a young man who falls in love with his uncle’s fiancée Nathalie (Madeleine Sologne). When she decides to go through with the marriage anyway, Patrice falls for another woman named Nathalie, but can’t get the first one out of his head.

Country: France

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Alexandre Rignault,

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Critic William Thomas

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With its poisonous love potions, haunted characters and evocative emoting, this captures the sinister as well as the charming side of the myth.

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