UW Cinematheque: Jacques Becker - A Master Before the Wave

Cast: Raymond Rouleau, Micheline Presle, Jean Chevrier
A womanizing fashion designer (Rouleau) finally finds love, but unfortunately he has fallen for his best friend’s fiancée (Presle). This wonderful cinematic precursor to Phantom Thread counts among its admirers Jean-Paul Gaultier, who said Falbalas “gave me my vocation in life. It directed the way I should make fashion.”