介绍：巴黎热闹的街上，美丽的女子Garance（阿莱缇 Arletty 饰）先是认识了演员Frédérick Lemaître（皮埃尔·布拉瑟 Pierre Brasseur 饰），然后又认识了Baptiste Deburau（让-路易斯·巴劳特 Jean-Louis Barrault 饰），她还有一个追求者Pierre-François Lacenaire，一个偷东西做些坏事的人某个夜晚，Baptiste又在酒吧遇见了Garance，他向她表白爱意，Garance也喜欢Baptiste，两人来到Baptiste居住的旅馆。Baptiste希望Garance像他爱她一样爱他，于是离开了她的房间。恰巧Garance的隔壁住着的是Frédérick，两人遂一夜春宵，坠入爱河。Garance也加入了Baptiste和Frédérick的剧团。在一次演出上，一位花花公子，Comte Édouard de Montray被Garance的美丽深深吸引。他来到后台像Garance表达了他的爱，但被Garance拒绝。于是Édouard留下了他的联系方式，希望Garance有难的时候可以找他。不久，Garance卷入一宗谋杀案，她只能寻求Édouard的帮助。多年过去了，随着Édouard走遍各地的Garance又回到了巴黎，又遇到了Baptiste、Pierre-François和Frédérick.....

介绍：Paris, 1315. The Tour de Nesle, a guard tower on the banks of the Seine, has become a symbol of mystery and fear. Each morning, at its base, the bodies of handsome young aristocrats are found floating in the river, all butchered by sword or arrow. One evening, two noblemen, Buridan and Philippe d'Aulnay, find themselves in the infamous tower, lured there on the expectation of a night of unbridled passion. Little do they realise that they are to be the next victims of a woman who is determined to take revenge against all men - Margaret of Burgundy, the present Queen of France. Although Philippe is killed, Buridan escapes, and intends to blackmail the Queen. Unless she makes him her prime minister, he will expose her crimes to Philippe's brother and her husband, King Louis X. When she moves to eliminate Burdan, Margaret makes a terrible discovery...　　In the twilight years of his long and pretty uneven career, the great avant-garde film director Abel Gance made a number of films which, whilst not as grand and artistically inspired as his early silent masterpieces (La Roue (1923), Napoléon (1927)), still compared very favourably with the work of his contemporaries.　　Of these, La Tour de Nesle is a film that still stands up remarkably well today - an ambitious historical drama based on the famous 1832 play by Alexandre Dumas. It makes a nice companion piece to Gance's subsequent historical romp, Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964).　　　　Needless to say, the film isn't to be commended on its historical accuracy. As any historian will tell you, the Alexandre Dumas version of French history is wildly fanciful, to say the least. However, this doesn't prevent La Tour de Nesle from being an entertaining and, at times, highly poignant, piece of cinema.　　Whilst the characterisation and dialogue leave much to be desired, the plot (a murky tale of cruel revenge and political intrigue) is gripping, and the film's artistic design is exceptional for a film of this period. Gance brings a strangely expressionistic touch to his use of colour and shade, something which adds to the darkly sinister nature of the plot, whilst imbuing the film with a striking sense of historical realism. A propos, Gance's assistant director Nelly Kaplan makes her screen début in a small role, shortly before she herself embarked on a successful film making career.