Music in the Café/Brothel

While a small point in such a beautiful movie, I have to say that the music played in the brothel scene where Jean goes to look for Andrée wouldn't really be the kind of music heard in Europe in 1915 or at that time. It's wonderful music of course, but something that belongs more to the immediate post Great War period, to the early 1920s.

Early jazz of this type wasn't really introduced into France until the arrival of American troops with (black) musicians. And even then it was a novelty and wouldn't have been played in a brothel, certainly not in a provincial town. I couldn't help but notice that the other characters in the brothel, both men and women, wore clothes and hairstyles that were also not really 1915 styled, but once again more suited to a 1920s era scene.

These are naturally insignificant remarks for a movie of this type, but something of a shame nonetheless. Keeping with historical music and clothing would have been a better choice. The music in the brothel scene was certainly catchy and upbeat and I really like that sort of jazz, but it just didn't belong in this particular movie.