The book that made France clutch its pearls — and the teen genius who died laughing.
In 1923, the young French writer Raymond Radiguet (1903-23) published The Devil in the Flesh, a novel that caused a great scandal by telling the story of the love affair between a married woman and a teenager in the middle of World War I.
Production
Gorgeous period recreations of 1920s Parisian literary salons.
Acting
De Saint Jean captures Radiguet's unnerving confidence.
Director
Yann Coquart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Radiguet wrote the novel in a monastery to escape Parisian party life — Coquart filmed these sequences in the actual cloisters.
Jean Cocteau's possessive grief after Radiguet's death (typhoid, 1923) became its own literary mythology; the documentary uses Cocteau's private letters for the first time.
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