A shadowy figure in French film history, Jean Devaivre made a pair of strange, inventive films in the late 1940s before he and the films seemed to disappear from view. Rediscovered and restored by Lyon's Institut Lumière, Eleven O'Clock Woman is a complicated mystery tale in which even parrots lie. Paul Meurisse plays the dapper detective Stanislas Octave Seminario, known as "SOS," who investigates anonymous letters received by the Pescara family and a subsequent murder. Bertrand Tavernier notes: "The filmmaker plays at changing point of view in the midst of a scene, has characters suddenly speak directly to the camera, and starts out with a delightful pastiche of 'coming attractions' utilizing phantasmagorical puppets. An extremely brilliant first film."