Les amants (1958)
(The Lovers)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/scope 88m
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory
Synopsis:
The wife of a Burgundy newspaper editor leaves both her husband and playboy lover for a disenchanted young man of wealthy family who has rejected the haute-bourgeois lifestyle to which she clings.
Review:
A film which plays for more than half its length without showing its hand and then gives way to some of the most beautiful nocturnal scenes of transfigured love ever filmed. It shocked at the time because of its frank, non-judgemental approach to extra-marital sex, which seems most discreet now. There remains, however, a wonderful time capsule of French provincial life, and the Brahms sextet is used to memorable effect.
(The Lovers)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/scope 88m
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory
Synopsis:
The wife of a Burgundy newspaper editor leaves both her husband and playboy lover for a disenchanted young man of wealthy family who has rejected the haute-bourgeois lifestyle to which she clings.
Review:
A film which plays for more than half its length without showing its hand and then gives way to some of the most beautiful nocturnal scenes of transfigured love ever filmed. It shocked at the time because of its frank, non-judgemental approach to extra-marital sex, which seems most discreet now. There remains, however, a wonderful time capsule of French provincial life, and the Brahms sextet is used to memorable effect.
(The Lovers)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/scope 88m
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory
Synopsis:
The wife of a Burgundy newspaper editor leaves both her husband and playboy lover for a disenchanted young man of wealthy family who has rejected the haute-bourgeois lifestyle to which she clings.
Review:
A film which plays for more than half its length without showing its hand and then gives way to some of the most beautiful nocturnal scenes of transfigured love ever filmed. It shocked at the time because of its frank, non-judgemental approach to extra-marital sex, which seems most discreet now. There remains, however, a wonderful time capsule of French provincial life, and the Brahms sextet is used to memorable effect.