Columbia Pictures
Directed by Bryan Forbes
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Leslie Caron is a pregnant French girl in London, newly arrived with the intention of having an abortion. She gets a room in a shabby boarding house. The other tenants are an assortment of poor artistic types, a writer, a jazz musician, and aging women who run a brothel downstairs. At first disgusted with her surroundings, she strikes up a friendship with the writer, Tom Bell, and they gradually become romantically involved. She keeps her pregnancy a secret, but can't go through with the abortion. When Bell finds out, it threatens to destroy everything. Leslie Caron's performance is a revelation, miles beyond her previous lightweight roles in frothy Hollywood musicals.
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