"Devil In the Flesh", 1947, Claude Autant-Lara, TSPDT: 1000

The purposes of these posts is to give you a quick guide to movies in the TSPDT list of 1,000 best films of all time.  In this case, "Devil..." is a melodrama during the Great War (First World War) in a small town near Paris, about a schoolboy in love with a slightly older woman, which already has somebody in her life.  It has fun parts, with lots of modern banter between the leads, and some striking camera movements due to the limitations of the 4:3 format, which gives the director the necessity of "finding" the actors and showing somehow the interesting things that they encounter in each setting, thus the extremely fluid camerawork. The morals of the story, however, are terrible, not so far from the reactionary tale of "Forrest Gump".  It is not a mystery why this movie is rated so low in the list, it is notable, but it will be forgotten.  Still, if you are here, is because you know that you could do a lot worse (modern Hollywood).  Watch at least the first half.