Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination
José Luis de Vilallonga
- Raoul Florès
- (as José Villalonga)
Claude Mansard
- Marcelot
- (as Claude Mansart)
Jean-Claude Brialy
- Un Garçon a Manège
- (uncredited)
Patricia Maurin
- Catherine Tournier
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Louise de Vilmorin
- Dominique Vivant(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
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- TriviaAfter screening this film, Nico Jacobellis, manager of the Heights Art 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).
- GoofsWhen Jeanne and Bernard are sitting at the table at the end of the film, the camera moves towards them and becomes visible in the mirror on the wall.
- Quotes
Bernard Dubois-Lambert: "The moon rising in cloudless skies, suddenly bathed her in its silver beam."
Jeanne Tournier: Whom do you mean?
Bernard Dubois-Lambert: "She saw her image glowing in my eyes. Her smile like an angel's did gleam."
Jeanne Tournier: "The night is beautiful."
Bernard Dubois-Lambert: "The night is a woman."
- SoundtracksString Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major Op. 18 II. Andante ma moderato
(uncredited)
Written by Johannes Brahms
Conducted by Serge Baudo
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A love thornbird still searching her destination
Crazy about French movies ever since I started watching them. The black and white is more appropriate than colour for French film, very captivating and unreal.
What can you say about the French people? Desperados and aficionados of romance and love. Hopelessly romantics.
Simple story told like a poem regardless of any moral criticism, there is no such thing call moral or immoral in the realm of art. Art is a rival to morality, it allows all sorts of existences. In this movie, the sin is adultery but no one cares to condemn it, the pursuit of love takes it all. The love scene might be stunning to the audience in late 50s France, but definitely not today. Jeanne Moreau somehow took a bold step. Anyway, she is radiating gloriously in superb cinematography.
Jeanne Tournier married to a well-off provincial newspaper owner for eight years. She has a daughter, a polo-playing lover and a big bunch of acid-tongued snobbish Parisian friends. Nevertheless, she is bored about living in such a polite society. Finally when Bernard, a young student whom she has known just for a few hours, enters into her life, just after solely one night's time in her husband's villa with him, she decides to leave with him into the uncertain future the very next morning.
Several lyrical scenes impress me a great deal. Their nightly accidental encounter at the garden. Jeanne is illuminating the dimness, she looks like a mystic fairy seducing Bernard. Another one is the astonishing look of her friend when she sees them leaving together. The most memorable is the very last scene, they drive and drive into the unknown, unexplored.
The map shown at the beginning and the voice-over at the end may be something like a warning. However, when two lovers in love that they can sacrifice everything for the romance in such a desperate fashion, nothing is threatening. Feminists or women who are fighting for their freedom would be clapping their hands she's got guts.
What can you say about the French people? Desperados and aficionados of romance and love. Hopelessly romantics.
Simple story told like a poem regardless of any moral criticism, there is no such thing call moral or immoral in the realm of art. Art is a rival to morality, it allows all sorts of existences. In this movie, the sin is adultery but no one cares to condemn it, the pursuit of love takes it all. The love scene might be stunning to the audience in late 50s France, but definitely not today. Jeanne Moreau somehow took a bold step. Anyway, she is radiating gloriously in superb cinematography.
Jeanne Tournier married to a well-off provincial newspaper owner for eight years. She has a daughter, a polo-playing lover and a big bunch of acid-tongued snobbish Parisian friends. Nevertheless, she is bored about living in such a polite society. Finally when Bernard, a young student whom she has known just for a few hours, enters into her life, just after solely one night's time in her husband's villa with him, she decides to leave with him into the uncertain future the very next morning.
Several lyrical scenes impress me a great deal. Their nightly accidental encounter at the garden. Jeanne is illuminating the dimness, she looks like a mystic fairy seducing Bernard. Another one is the astonishing look of her friend when she sees them leaving together. The most memorable is the very last scene, they drive and drive into the unknown, unexplored.
The map shown at the beginning and the voice-over at the end may be something like a warning. However, when two lovers in love that they can sacrifice everything for the romance in such a desperate fashion, nothing is threatening. Feminists or women who are fighting for their freedom would be clapping their hands she's got guts.
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- shu-fen
- Apr 7, 2004
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- Also known as
- Ljubavnici
- Filming locations
- Lusigny-sur-Ouche, Côte-d'Or, France(Stop off at village on trip to Dijon)
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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