Jeanne and Johanna are two friends who belong to a second rate band,
Les Sirènes. With the help of a sound engineer, the band
manages to win a competition in Toulouse which propels its members
towards stardom. The world has yet to discover that Johanna sings
on stage to a recording provided by Jeanne. Success does not
bring happiness to either woman. Johanna becomes ever more
capricious and Jeanne resents her enforced anonymity whilst her friend
takes all the glory. During a concert in their home town, Johanna
decides to come clean, in the hope of preserving her friendship with
Jeanne. Her mother has other ideas...
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.
It was American film noir and pulp fiction that kick-started the craze for thrillers in 1950s France and made it one of the most popular and enduring genres.
Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.
In his letters to his friends and family, Franz Kafka gives us a rich self-portrait that is surprisingly upbeat, nor the angst-ridden soul we might expect.