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Cinema V |
Release Date:
March 11, 2011
Summary:
(1964) It’s a coup de foudre as 40ish celebrity literary critic (well, they’re French) Jean Desailly meets 20ish stewardess Françoise Dorléac on a Lisbon lecture jaunt. Just a mid-life crisis fling — right? — but then he decides to pursue things back in Paris, where he’s already got a busy, satisfying career, an elegant apartment, an adorable daughter, and darkly sensuous wife Nelly Benedetti. An affaire du coeur never had so many practical difficulties, as places of assignation are hard to come by, hotels seem too sordid, and a Rheims lecture gig planned as a getaway sees him monopolized by provincial bourgeois groupies, especially clinging pseud acquaintance Daniel Ceccaldi. Truffaut wanted to depict “a truly modern love affair, in planes and elevators, all the harassments of la vie quotidienne,” here with close-ups of Citroën push-button ignitions, dial phones, elevator numbers, room keys, even making a “we’ll never make the flight” drive to the airport a tour de force of low-key normal life suspense. Stage great (and the toothpick-munching top cop in Melville’s Le Doulos) Desailly incarnates the cow-eyed look of a 40-year-old-going-on-16; Dorléac (Catherine Deneuve’s elder sister, who’d be killed in a car crash only three years later) is by turns bemused, honestly delighted to hear anecdotes about Balzac, bored, and confused; while the unsung Benedetti is simply a blowtorch — why’s he looking for something else? (Janus Films)
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Details
| Runtime: | 113 min |
| Rating: | Unrated |
| Production: | Sédif Productions |
| Genres: | Drama, Romance |
| Countries: | Portugal, France |
| Languages: | English, French, Portuguese |
| Director | Credit |
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| François Truffaut | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
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| François Truffaut | Screenplay |
| Jean-Louis Richard | Screenplay |
| Cast | Credit |
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| Carnero | Lisbon Organizer |
| Daniel Ceccaldi | Clément |
| Dominique Lacarrière | La Secrétaire Dominique |
| François Truffaut | Le Pompiste |
| Françoise Dorléac | Nicole |
| Georges de Givray | Nicole'sfather |
| Jean Desailly | Pierre Lachenay |
| Jean Lanier | Michel |
| Laurence Badie | Ingrid |
| Maurice Garrel | Bontemps |
| Nelly Benedetti | Franca Lachenay |
| Paule Emanuele | Odile |
| Philippe Dumat | Directeur Cinéma Reims |
| Pierre Risch | Chanoine |
| Sabine Haudepin | Sabine Lachenay |
| Producer | Credit |
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| António da Cunha Telles | Producer |
| François Truffaut | Producer |
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