When Huston decided in 1969 to make a film about the “make love, not war” generation, he set it during the Hundred Years’ War. In A Walk with Love and Death, two lovers—an idealistic Parisian student and a teenage noblewoman—act out a brief, doomed romance while their world comes apart around them. The result is one of Huston’s most delicate films and also one of his least forgiving: a tough-minded meditation on the fragility of happiness and the contingency of peace. Anjelica Huston, then 18, made her acting debut in the movie’s lead.