It begins with lines from Beaumarchais’ 18th-century comedy The Marriage of Figaro, presenting love as a winged creature which is necessarily designed to flit about. In the case of Nora Gregor’s Christine, the Austrian wife of the Marquis Robert de La Cheyniest (Marcel Dalio), happiness seems permanently elusive. She’s torn between the competing attentions of her husband, the dashing aviator André Jurieux (Roland Toutain), and even Renoir himself, in the role of a gregarious failed conductor called Octave. Robert, meanwhile, is reaching the end of a lengthy affair with Geneviève (Mila Parély), which everyone knows about except Christine.
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