Miracles Only Happen Once
{{Short description|1951 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name =Miracles Only Happen Once
| image =File:Miracles Only Happen Once.jpg
| caption =
| director = Yves Allégret
| producer = Sacha Gordine
| writer = Jacques Sigurd
| narrator =
| starring = Jean Marais
Alida Valli
Marcelle Arnold
| music =Louis Beydts
| cinematography = Jean Isnard
| editing =Maurice Serein
| studio = Films Sacha Gordine
Excelsa Film
| distributor =Gamma-Jeannic Films
| released = {{Film date|1951|05|18|df=yes}}
| runtime = 98 minutes
| country = France
Italy
| language = French
| budget =
| gross = 1,239,492 admissions (France){{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-jean-marais-c22695355|title=Box Office Figures for Jean Marais films|website=Box Office Story}}
}}
Miracles Only Happen Once ({{langx|fr|Les Miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois}}, {{langx|it|I miracoli non si ripetono}}) is a 1951 French-Italian drama film directed by Yves Allégret and starring Jean Marais, Alida Valli and Marcelle Arnold.{{cite web | url=https://www.unifrance.org/film/3121/les-miracles-n-ont-lieu-qu-une-fois | title=Les Miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois de Yves Allégret (1951) - Unifrance }} The film is about a "psychic war-casualty" played by Jean Marais.{{cite book|last=Sieglohr|first=Ulrike|title=Heroines Without Heroes|year=2000|publisher=Continuum|pages=52}}Cardullo p.XV It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Trauner and Auguste Capelier.
Synopsis
The educational year is ending and Jérôme, a medical student, is on the point of leaving on holiday to Brittany with friends. However he remains pensive and regrets not having approached Claudia, an Italian student, who must leave France the same evening. So he decides to go to her hotel. The two young people acknowledge their mutual love and Jérôme accompanies Claudia to the station and promises to join her
in Tuscany the next month, as soon as he finds enough money. In Tuscany, Jérôme realizes that he seriously loves Claudia and proposes marriage to her. The two lovers return to their hotel but the city is agitated: war has just been declared. Jérôme learns from the consulate that he has been mobilised and that he must return. Separated by the war and no longer able to correspond, Jérôme loses track of Claudia. He will try to forget her by remaking his life, but haunted by the memory of this lost love, he will not succeed. Eleven years later, he leaves for Italy to try to find her, but time has passed...
Cast
- Alida Valli as Claudia
- Jean Marais as Jérôme
- Marcelle Arnold as the bar owner
- Christine Chesnay as Jérôme's wife
- Charles Rutherford as the American
- Dedi Ristori as Little Francesca
- Aldo Moschino as the doctor
- Emma Baron as the hotel owner
- Nada Fiorelli as Maria Forni
- Edmond Ardisson as an employee
- Daniel Ceccaldi as a friend of Jérôme
- Jacques Denoël as a friend of Jérôme
References
Bibliography
- Cardullo, Bert. Five French Filmmakers: Renoir, Bresson, Tati, Truffaut, Rohmer : Essays and Interviews. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
- Hain, Milan. Starmaker: David O. Selznick and the Production of Stars in the Hollywood Studio System. University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0042737}}
- [https://archive.today/20130130062103/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/166290/Les-Miracles-N-Ont-Lieu-Qu-Une-Fois/overview NY Times Movies page on film]
{{Yves Allégret}}
Category:1950s French-language films
Category:French black-and-white films
Category:Italian black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Yves Allégret
Category:Films scored by Louis Beydts
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