Amants, Les (1958)

Director:

Louis Malle

Guionista:

Louise de Vilmorin (dialogue)
(más)

Release Date:

26 octubre 1959 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Frase comercial:

The most talked-about and fought-about film!

Plot:

Bored with her husband, bored with her polo-playing lover, will the middle-aged heroine go away with...

Plot Keywords:

Workaholic | Paris France | Newspaper | Secret Lover | Husband Wife Relationship

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Insipid mess, go get some Bergman

Cast

Jeanne Moreau	...	Jeanne Tournier
Alain Cuny	...	Henri Tournier
José Luis de Villalonga	...	Raoul Flores (as José Villalonga)
Jean-Marc Bory	...	Bernard Dubois-Lambert
Judith Magre	...	Maggy Thiebaut-Leroy
Gaston Modot	...	Coudray
Michèle Girardon	...	La secrétaire
Claude Mansard	...	Marcelot
Georgette Lobre	...	Marthe
Patricia Maurin	...	Catherine, fille de Jeanne
Lucienne Hamon	...	Chantal
Pierre Frag
Gib Grossac
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Jean-Claude Brialy	...	Un garçon a manège (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Louis Malle

Créditos del guión
Louise de Vilmorin		(dialogue)
Dominique Vivant		(novel "Point de Lendemain") uncredited

Fotografía por
Henri Decaë

Montaje por
Léonide Azar

Diseño de producción por
Bernard Evein

Decorados
Jacques Saulnier

Diseño de vestuario por
Coco Chanel

Departamento de maquillaje
Gisèle Jacquin	....	makeup artist

Dirección de producción
Irénée Leriche	....	production manager
Hubert Mérial	....	unit manager

Ayudante de dirección
Alain Cavalier	....	assistant director
François Leterrier	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Charles Merangel	....	property master

Departamento de sonido
Pierre-André Bertrand	....	sound (as Pierre Bertrand)

Camera and Electrical Department
Vincent Rossell	....	photographer
André Villard	....	camera operator

Editorial Department
Madeleine Bibollet	....	assistant editor
Kenout Peltier	....	assistant editor

Otros miembros del equipo
Francine Corteggiani	....	script girl

Production Companies

• Nouvelles Éditions de Films

Distributors

• Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France (1958) (France) (theatrical)
• Zenith International Films (1959) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Criterion Collection, The (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Kinokuniya (2005) (Japan) (DVD)
• New Yorker Films (1996) (USA) (VHS)
• Video Film Express (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Poste Parisien  sound post-production

También conocida como:

The Lovers (UK) (USA)
Amantes, Los (Argentina) (Chile) (Costa Rica) (Mexico) (Uruguay) (Venezuela) [es]

Duración:

Argentina:90 min

País:

France

Idioma:

French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

Burgundy, France

Company:

Nouvelles Éditions de Films

Trivialidades:

After screening this film, Nico Jacobellis, manager of a motion picture 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).

Movie Connections:

Featured in Geburtstagskinder der Nouvelle Vague (2007) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Streichsextett No. 1

Insipid mess, go get some Bergman

This is my first Louis Malle film and I found myself really quite disappointed. One of the other posters says that the theme is about freedom and uncertainty. I would agree with this, but to be blunt a better way to learn about the subject would be to listen to the Brahms' String Sextets without the film.

Jeanne Moreau has been described in this movie as inscrutable, I'd agree with that, in this film we find out absolutely nothing of interest about her character, and I'm left perplexed as to the attraction Bernard had for her (purely libidinous?). The morality of the film is very confusing, certainly we can applaud Jeanne's existential urge to escape from her stifling fling, her marriage, and her Parisienne lifestyle, but the fact that she leaves her daughter behind is execrable. The woodland scenes are intriguing but a bit too contrived. If you want to see films about relationships I would suggest most of the oeuvre of Ingmar Bergman, which is far superior.

All in all a rather insipid, though beautiful, mess. Deserves 7 out of 10 because it is provocative and like all good art, subversive.