The Music Teacher

The attraction of The Music Teacher was very easy to explain to Madame (because Madame is a queen): beautiful interiors, full of Chinese lacquer screens; European Japanoiserie vases, marble busts; elegant ladies with their hair up in long-necked lace blouses wrapped in rich Paisley shawls; a noble-looking, perfectly dressed older gentleman in an open carriage with a younger lady, on a tree-lined avenue, in spring time: profoundly felt tragic words, a sudden spring squall. The story is preposterously silly; but with visuals like that, who cares?