Amants, Les (1958)

Director:

Louis Malle

Guionista:

Louise de Vilmorin (dialogue)

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:

Sex | Infidelity | Husband Wife Relationship | Car Breakdown | Paris France

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Looking for real happiness

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

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:

Referenced in Mau Mau Sex Sex (2001)

Soundtrack:

Streichsextett No. 1

Looking for real happiness

In 1959 this film was considered as something close to porno, but this is far enough from the reality. Jeanne Moreau was young, nice and attractive. She was the star of this film, which goes slowly as usual in French cinema's style. When you see this type of film you must become a psychologist to penetrate inside the brains of each hero and make some conclusions. Accordingly I concluded that life is not a straight line, suddenly something may happen in our lives that deviate completely this straight line. Formal ethics accepted by the society goes sometimes to extremes that does not enable the persons to behave and feel happy. What's wrong when the current life is disrupted to start a new one? At this point I advise you to see this old, and black and white film, which may compel you to think and to conclude something new, probably different to what I am saying here.