Coltrane and 'Cat in the Bag'

In 1964, Canadian filmmaker Gilles Groulx directed Le Chat Dans le Sac (The Cat in the Bag), a black-and-white film about two young lovers in Montreal. The film is in French and is a forerunner of A Man and a Woman (1966), without the sports cars and the dramatic Francis Lai score.

Instead, this one had John Coltrane creating a cerebral mood. A jazz fan,…