The Woman Next Door

La femme d'à côté

MS14

Genre

Drama, Romance

Director

François Truffaut

Run time

1h 46min

Cast

Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner, Roger Van Hool, Véronique Silver

Bernard Coudray is a happily married man living in the village of Grenoble. His life is knocked askew when Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard move in next door, and Mathilde proves to be Bernard's long-ago lover. The couple slides into an affair, as apparently their previous relationship ended without a firm resolution. Mathilde, married more recently than Bernard, to a devoted man some years older than her, senses the futility of revisiting the past, but her attempts to break off the relationship inflame Bernard. When Bernard begins to regret his own reckless behavior, Mathilde's understandable confusion leads to a nervous breakdown.

France 1981

Genre

Drama, Romance

Director

François Truffaut

Run time

1h 46min

Cast

Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner, Roger Van Hool, Véronique Silver

Bernard Coudray is a happily married man living in the village of Grenoble. His life is knocked askew when Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard move in next door, and Mathilde proves to be Bernard's long-ago lover. The couple slides into an affair, as apparently their previous relationship ended without a firm resolution. Mathilde, married more recently than Bernard, to a devoted man some years older than her, senses the futility of revisiting the past, but her attempts to break off the relationship inflame Bernard. When Bernard begins to regret his own reckless behavior, Mathilde's understandable confusion leads to a nervous breakdown.

France 1981

Info

Rating

Under 14 Not Recommended

Production year

1981

Global distributor

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Local distributor

Kultuurikuld MTÜ

In cinema

11/1/2014