Everything happens in a daydream in a hospital waiting room. While his young wife has just been seriously injured and is undergoing surgery, the husband relives, in his memory, the reality of their recent past, or what he would have liked his marital union to be. At the beginning, this young couple took as their model the famous couple from "Dangerous Liaisons" and their line of conduct: complete freedom allowed to each, as long as they confide in each other about their adventures...
Guy Lefranc's first efforts were certainly promising :"knock" who owed a lot to Jouvet though, "une histoire d 'amour" and "capitaine pantoufle" ;afterward, the slump began.
"Conduite à gauche" showed a tendency to look towards the NV: cult of youth, navel-gazing, loose screenplay ; the story is an interminable flashback , divided into two parts : the first told in the past tense ,the second in the past conditional where the husband thinks about his errors ,how he neglected his wife ;thus involving minimal expenses (same characters, same places).
This is cinema de papa masquerading as NV .It's all the more infuriating since Dany Robin had already been through this kind of movie before : in Julien Duvivier 's masterful "la fête à Henriette" (1952) she lived different lives according to the screenwriters' whims. Avoid Lefranc's poor film and watch this great director's .
Robin's co-star,Marcel Amont is better as a singer than as an actor.
