The recent issue of " je t'attendrai" aka "le déserteur" ,the very first movie in the history of cinema which featured a "real-time structure " on dvd ,along with Quentin Tarantino's support,put Leonide Moguy under the spotlight in his native country .
"Domani è troppo tardi", in spite of the presence of the great character actress Gabrielle Dorziat ,has remained neglected to this day here and it is certainly unfair.
Although not Italian, Moguy integrated well into the neorealism school ,which the presence of the brilliant director/actor De Sica reinforces.
This plea for a more tolerant sexuality may seem outdated by today's standards,but it was the beginning of a decade,the fifties ,and certainly a courageous movefor the time .
At home ,the youngsters are denied any information ( babies are born in cabbages , the stork brings them ,we buy them in the hospital,etc) , and at school ,only two teachers take a rebel stand .It may remind the French audience of an early Moguy movie "prisons sans barreaux " (jail without bars) (1937)which took place in a reform school for girls where a new headmistress
wanted to impose more human rules.
In "prison sans barreaux" , a young inmate (Corinne Luchaire ) discovered love and her story may recall that of Pier Angeli (once James Dean 's fiancée)and her Romeo.
In the Summer holiday camp ,things are worse ; Gabrielle Dorziat shines in her part of a holier-than-thou headmistress, an iron lady finally overtaken by events ; the calving cow is a good stroke of inspiration and replaces all the fossilized speeches of the old lady.
To the French audience ,I recommend " Domani è troppo tardi"
To the Italian audience, "Je t'attendrai" aka "le déserteur" (feat Corinne Luchaire)
