in the last century France in the 1920s , Shelley ( Rupert Flanders ornaments ) mother the Pi Luosi ...
in the last century France in the 1920s , Shelley ( Rupert Flanders ornaments ) mother the Pi Luosi is of a courtesan in Paris , the young Shelley and the mother of his girlfriend , another senior prostitute Leia ( Michelle Pfeiffer decorated ) love . Discovered by the mother Piluo Si , she began to do everything possible to obstruct them . Human ups and downs in the French Vanity Fair 1920s Paris, the son of the courtesan Piluo Si Shelley fell in love with the mother's friends - a 50 - year-old senior prostitute Leia . Pi Luosi had to send him to Leia side, just to use the rules of society by this experienced man Church son . She thought that the son will be around Leia grown into a sophisticated playboy , and then it will naturally leave that and the general age of the woman , to find a door harem joined this high society . However , taught him how to love a woman , Shelly , love is simply unable to extricate themselves . When the progress of the the Pi Luosi find things than she expected , and will do everything possible to force the son to give up on six years of feelings . Shelley in the mother 's stress finally a compromise , but he still can not forget Leia , and even after finally married the wealthy daughter . In the end, he chose to escape and fled to a fantasy world . The film adaptation based on the novels of French writer Colette . The original can not be considered the masterpiece as a work of the classical era of the late , its position in literary history is not very important , not to mention outstanding in to Vanity human ups and downs , the theme of the traditional French novel , but it can not conceal the author insight into the skill of the things for specific people in specific times , specific rules of the game inside the harbor feelings and struggles , there is a fine description of a century later , it seems , these are like delicate porcelain, elegant and fragile . Directed by such a work , I am afraid it is really Englishman than the Frenchman is more suitable .
