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| distributor = [[Gaumont Film Company|Gaumont]]
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'''''Entre Nous''''' (''"Between Us"''; also known as '''''Coup de foudre''''') is a 1983 French biographical [[drama film]] directed by [[Diane Kurys]], who shares the writing credits with [[Olivier Cohen]]. Set in the France of the mid twentieth century, the film stars [[Isabelle Huppert]], [[Miou-Miou]], [[Guy Marchand]], [[Jean-Pierre Bacri]] and [[Christine Pascal]]. ''Coup de Foudre'' means "love at first sight".
'''''Entre Nous''''' (''"Between Us"''; also known as '''''Coup de foudre''''') is a 1983 French biographical [[drama film]] directed by [[Diane Kurys]], who shares the writing credits with [[Olivier Cohen]]. Set in the France of the mid 20th century, the film stars [[Isabelle Huppert]], [[Miou-Miou]], [[Guy Marchand]], [[Jean-Pierre Bacri]], [[Christine Pascal]], [[Denis Lavant]] and [[Dominique Lavanant]]. ''Coup de Foudre'' means "[[love at first sight]]".


==Plot==
==Plot==
In France in 1942, a young Jewish woman named Léna is interned by the [[Vichy France|Vichy]] authorities and faces the risk of deportation to [[Nazi Germany]]. Michel, one of the guards, offers to save her by marrying her. They escape on foot over the [[Alps]] to Italy. After the war, they settle in [[Lyon]], where Michel opens a garage and Léna has two daughters with him. At a school event, she meets another mother, Madeleine, who is married with one son. The two women become close friends, and their husbands also get along, although both men secretly feel jealous of the bond their wives share.
''Entre Nous'' tells the story of two young married women in the 1950s who don't recognise how unfulfilled they have been in their marriages until they meet each other. In the preliminary scenes, set in 1942, Lena ([[Isabelle Huppert]]), a pretty 18 year old, has been arrested and brought to an internment camp for Jews in the Pyrenees. The camp is guarded by members of the [[French Foreign Legion]], and one of them, Michel ([[Guy Marchand]]), writes her a note warning her she may be deported to a German Nazi camp, and offers her marriage as a means of escape. She accepts. During the marriage ceremony she discovers that he too is Jewish; she's dismayed to learn that she won't have the protection of a gentile name.


Madeleine has a brief affair with her former art teacher, for which Léna lends her flat. Unfortunately, Michel comes home at lunchtime and discovers the guilty couple. This turns him against Madeleine and strains Léna's friendship with her. The two women had been planning to open a dress shop, and Michel offers to finance it on the condition that Madeleine is excluded, as she has gone off to Paris. Taking a night train to visit her, Léna has a sexual encounter with a soldier, her first experience apart from Michel, which she finds very enjoyable. In Paris, the two women dance, get drunk in a nightclub, and end up in bed together.
But she has no choice and they hasten to the Italian border. By 1952, the hardworking Michel has got himself his own garage in [[Lyon]], and they have two small daughters. Lena meets Madeleine ([[Miou-Miou]]), at a school pageant. Madeleine, who comes from a moderately wealthy family, was an art student in 1942, and had married a fellow student who was killed in a street skirmish between the students and the collaborationist police. A widow at 19, Madeleine drifted into marriage with an actor/black marketeer, Costa ([[Jean-Pierre Bacri]]), and now has a son at the school. The two women become inseparable, in one scene, sharing a bed (but the characters are not lesbians).


However, Léna fails to realise the fragility of Madeleine, who is eventually placed in a mental hospital and later released to the care of her parents. When Léna visits her, she takes Madeleine out to show her the new dress shop. Unfortunately, Michel drops by and upon seeing Madeleine there, he smashes the place up. Léna takes Madeleine and their children away to a rented house by the sea, where Michel tries to reconcile with her but without success. The end caption reveals that Léna never sees her husband again, and Madeleine dies two years later.
They develop an intimacy that is based partly on their boredom with their domestic situations. Michel and Lena's marriage is fractious, although there are moments of happiness with their two young daughters, and the film is primarily about Lena leaving her husband. At the end of the film, she and Madeleine (who left her own husband sometime earlier, had trouble holding down a job, and went through a nervous breakdown), are about to open a dress shop in Paris.<ref> [[Pauline Kael]] ''State of the Art ISBN 0-7145-2869-2. This synopsis derives from p.133-135 </ref>


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==Cast==
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==Awards and nominations==
* [[Miou-Miou]] as Madeleine Segara née Vernier
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===Won===
* [[Isabelle Huppert]] as Lena Korski née Weber
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*'''[[San Sebastián International Film Festival|San Sebastián Film Festival]]'''
* [[Guy Marchand]] as Michel Korski
**FIPRESCI Prize (Diane Kurys)
* [[Jean-Pierre Bacri]] as Costa Segara
* [[Robin Renucci]] as Raymond
* [[Patrick Bauchau]] as Roland Carlier
* [[Jacques Alric]] as Mr. Vernier
* [[Jacqueline Doyen]] as Mme. Vernier
* [[Saga Blanchard]] as Sophie
* [[Guillaume Le Guellec]] as René Segara
* [[Christine Pascal]] as Sarah
* [[Corinne Anxionnaz]] as 'unnamed'
* [[Jacques Blal]] as Lionel Feldman
* [[Bernard Cazassus]] as Le chef de gare
* [[Gérard Chambre]] as Flirt


===Nominated===
==Reception==
===Critical response===
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*'''[[Academy Awards]]'''
''Entre Nous'' has an approval rating of 100% on [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on 10 reviews, and an average rating of 8.3/10.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/entre_nous | title=At First Sight - Rotten Tomatoes | website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] }}</ref>
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**Best Foreign Language Film<ref name="Oscars1984">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/56th-winners.html |title=The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=2013-10-27 |work=oscars.org}}</ref>

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===Awards and nominations===
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*'''[[César Awards]]'''

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**Best Actor &ndash; Supporting Role (Guy Marchand)
====Won====
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**Best Actress &ndash; Leading Role (Miou-Miou)
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* [[San Sebastián International Film Festival|San Sebastián Film Festival]]
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**Best Film
**Best Screenplay &ndash; Original (Diane Kurys and Alain Le Henry)
** FIPRESCI Prize (Diane Kurys)

====Nominated====
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* [[Academy Awards]]
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** Best Foreign Language Film<ref name="Oscars1984">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1984 |title=The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2013-10-27 |work=oscars.org}}</ref>
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* [[César Awards]]
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** Best Actor &ndash; Supporting Role (Guy Marchand)
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** Best Actress &ndash; Leading Role (Miou-Miou)
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** Best Film
** Best Screenplay &ndash; Original (Diane Kurys and Alain Le Henry)


==See also==
==See also==
* [[Isabelle Huppert filmography]]
* [[Isabelle Huppert on screen and stage]]
* [[List of submissions to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film]]
* [[List of submissions to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film]]
* [[List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]
* [[List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{imdb title|0085370}}
* {{IMDb title|0085370}}
* {{Amg movie|15914|Entre Nous}}
* {{Amg movie|15914|Entre Nous}}
* {{Rotten-tomatoes|entre_nous|Entre Nous}}
* {{Rotten-tomatoes|entre_nous|Entre Nous}}
* {{Mojo title|entrenous}}


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Revision as of 23:55, 17 March 2024

For the song by Rush with the same title, see Entre Nous (Rush song).
Entre Nous
French film poster for Entre Nous
Directed byDiane Kurys
Written byOlivier Cohen (book)
Diane Kurys (book)
Alain Le Henry
Produced byAriel Zeitoun
StarringMiou-Miou
Isabelle Huppert
Guy Marchand
CinematographyBernard Lutic
Edited byJoële Van Effenterre
Music byLuis Enríquez Bacalov
Distributed byGaumont
Release date
  • 6 April 1983 (1983-04-06)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Entre Nous ("Between Us"; also known as Coup de foudre) is a 1983 French biographical drama film directed by Diane Kurys, who shares the writing credits with Olivier Cohen. Set in the France of the mid 20th century, the film stars Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Christine Pascal, Denis Lavant and Dominique Lavanant. Coup de Foudre means "love at first sight".

Plot

In France in 1942, a young Jewish woman named Léna is interned by the Vichy authorities and faces the risk of deportation to Nazi Germany. Michel, one of the guards, offers to save her by marrying her. They escape on foot over the Alps to Italy. After the war, they settle in Lyon, where Michel opens a garage and Léna has two daughters with him. At a school event, she meets another mother, Madeleine, who is married with one son. The two women become close friends, and their husbands also get along, although both men secretly feel jealous of the bond their wives share.

Madeleine has a brief affair with her former art teacher, for which Léna lends her flat. Unfortunately, Michel comes home at lunchtime and discovers the guilty couple. This turns him against Madeleine and strains Léna's friendship with her. The two women had been planning to open a dress shop, and Michel offers to finance it on the condition that Madeleine is excluded, as she has gone off to Paris. Taking a night train to visit her, Léna has a sexual encounter with a soldier, her first experience apart from Michel, which she finds very enjoyable. In Paris, the two women dance, get drunk in a nightclub, and end up in bed together.

However, Léna fails to realise the fragility of Madeleine, who is eventually placed in a mental hospital and later released to the care of her parents. When Léna visits her, she takes Madeleine out to show her the new dress shop. Unfortunately, Michel drops by and upon seeing Madeleine there, he smashes the place up. Léna takes Madeleine and their children away to a rented house by the sea, where Michel tries to reconcile with her but without success. The end caption reveals that Léna never sees her husband again, and Madeleine dies two years later.

Cast

Reception

Critical response

Entre Nous has an approval rating of 100% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 10 reviews, and an average rating of 8.3/10.[1]

Awards and nominations

Won

Nominated

  • Academy Awards
    • Best Foreign Language Film[2]
  • César Awards
    • Best Actor – Supporting Role (Guy Marchand)
    • Best Actress – Leading Role (Miou-Miou)
    • Best Film
    • Best Screenplay – Original (Diane Kurys and Alain Le Henry)

See also

References

  1. ^ "At First Sight - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes.
  2. ^ "The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
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