Elena and Her Men

Elena and Her Men

The Only Thing Gayer Than April in Paris is Bergman in Paris!

195695 min5.9 / 10

A buoyant, visually sumptuous romantic comedy set in Belle Époque Paris, where a charming Polish princess orchestrates a delightful tangle of romantic entanglements and political intrigue.

Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love. When Elena elicits the fascination of a famous general, she finds herself at the center of romantic machinations and political scheming, with the hearts of several men—as well as the future of France—in her hands.

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