"Un Carnet De Bal" is one of the earliest multi-episode films in screen history, and like most that followed in a similar vein, it is uneven: my favorite segments (out of 7 in total) are the 1st, with Françoise Rosay (a touching treatise on grief), and the 6th, with Pierre Blanchar (which deliberately plays like a horror movie, shot in one apartment, exclusively with titled camera angles, and surrounded by the incessant noise of large mechanical cranes working outside). In a couple of the other episodes, Duvivier gives a tad too much of a free reign to some of the guest stars to "do their thing", deviating from the main storyline. **1/2 out of 4.
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