
Scarlet – Fairy tale between wars
Scarlet (L’envol) is something of an international mash-up. Italian director Pietro Marcello has very loosely adapted a novel (Scarlet Sails) by Soviet writer Alexander Grin into a story of French village life in the interbellum years. As the film opens, Raphaël is returning home at the end of World War 1 when he discovers that…