Sylvia And The Phantom

Directed by Claude Autant-Lara before he made the immensely successful DEVIL IN THE FLESH, but released in the US in the wake of that film's popularity, SYLVIA AND THE PHANTOM is an enchanting, though minor, film about ghosts and young love. Best remembered today as one of the few films to feature a pre-Mr. Hulot Jacques Tati in a supporting role, SYLVIA AND THE PHANTOM stars teenage Odette Joyeux as Sylvie, a young French aristocrat who is in love with the image of her grandmother's nobleman lover, long since killed in a duel. In the castle where Sylvie lives hangs a huge portrait of the handsome young man upon which she gazes lovingly, despite having been told th...