Set during the war but released post-Armistice, Rose-France is at once highly and obliquely patriotic. It tells of an American soldier demobilized in France for fragile health who falls in love with a poetess and, through reading her work, becomes convinced she loves another. That lover, however, is "the spirit of France." "What strikes one initially about Rose-France is its pyrotechnical display of optical devices (the cameraman was Thiberville, who had worked...on M?i?s's early films). At various times, tese function to simulate subjective states or to divide the frame into two or three images for symbolic conjunctions and juxtapositions." (Richard Abel)