"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress Julie and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Julie and the other head of the school Cara in its final months.
- 6.5
- 1951
- Released
- 1h 36m
Edwige Feuillère
Mademoiselle Julie
Simone Simon
Mademoiselle Cara
Marie-Claire Olivia
Olivia Dealey
Yvonne de Bray
Victoire
Suzanne Dehelly
Mademoiselle Dubois
Marina de Berg
Mimi
Lesly Meynard
Frau RiesenerRina Rhéty
Signorina PallettoTania Soucault
GeorgieNadine Olivier
Cécile
Sophie Mallet
Student
Hélène Rémy
BoarderMichèle Monty
BoarderLudmilla Hols
BoarderMarcelle Arditi
BoarderMartine Bridou
StudentPatricia Solair
Boarder
Lisette Lebon
BoarderJacqueline Siber
BoarderViolette Verdy
BoarderSuzy Dumas
StudentCatherine Alba
StudentJocelyne Jany
StudentEliane Salmon
StudentEvelyne Salmon
InvestigatorGabriel Sardet
InvestigatorGilles Ange
InvestigatorChristine Tsingos
Renée Coriou
Renée France
Chantal Schoenlaub
Christine Carère
Student (uncredited)Jacqueline Delannoy
Boarder (uncredited)
Danièle Delorme
Former Student (uncredited)
Fernand Fabre
(uncredited)
Philippe Noiret
Béatrice's Lover (uncredited)Roseline Prince
Student (uncredited)
Released
fr
- #suicide
- #jealousy
- #paris, france
- #girls' boarding school
- #lesbian relationship
- #female protagonist
- #teacher student relationship
- #lgbt
- #woman director
- #19th century
Reviews
There are two pivotal women in this film, and it's not going to be easy for the young and impressionable "Olivia" (Marie-Claire Olivia) to decide in which camp to put her feet! She is an English lass who has arrived at a posh finishing school in France where she is welcomed by the school's charismatic and enigmatic "Miss Julie" (Edwige Feuillère) with whom she forms an instant attachment. Then the