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Overview

User Rating:
7.3/10   851 votes
Director:
Louis Malle
Writer:
Louise de Vilmorin (dialogue)
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Release Date:
26 October 1959 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
The most talked-about and fought-about film!
Plot:
Bored with her husband, bored with her polo-playing lover, will the middle-aged heroine go away with... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Looking for real happiness more

Cast

 (Complete credited cast)
Jeanne Moreau ... Jeanne Tournier
Alain Cuny ... Henri Tournier
José Luis de Villalonga ... Raoul Flores (as José Villalonga)
Jean-Marc Bory ... Bernard Dubois-Lambert
Judith Magre ... Maggy Thiebaut-Leroy
Gaston Modot ... Coudray
Michèle Girardon ... La secrétaire
Claude Mansard ... Marcelot
Georgette Lobre ... Marthe
Patricia Maurin ... Catherine, fille de Jeanne
Lucienne Hamon ... Chantal
Pierre Frag
Gib Grossac
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Lovers (UK) (USA)
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Runtime:
Argentina:90 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16
Filming Locations:
Burgundy, France more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
After screening this film, Nico Jacobellis, manager of a motion picture theater in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was charged with and convicted of possessing and exhibiting an obscene film. He appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court, which overturned the convictions, ruling that the film was not obscene. In a concurring opinion, Justice Potter Stewart made his famous pronouncement concerning what was pornography: "I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184, 197 (1964) (Stewart, J., concurring). more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Geburtstagskinder der Nouvelle Vague (2007) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Streichsextett No. 1 more

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8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
Looking for real happiness, 6 May 2007
7/10
Author: esteban hernandez from Italy

In 1959 this film was considered as something close to porno, but this is far enough from the reality. Jeanne Moreau was young, nice and attractive. She was the star of this film, which goes slowly as usual in French cinema's style. When you see this type of film you must become a psychologist to penetrate inside the brains of each hero and make some conclusions. Accordingly I concluded that life is not a straight line, suddenly something may happen in our lives that deviate completely this straight line. Formal ethics accepted by the society goes sometimes to extremes that does not enable the persons to behave and feel happy. What's wrong when the current life is disrupted to start a new one? At this point I advise you to see this old, and black and white film, which may compel you to think and to conclude something new, probably different to what I am saying here.

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