Les amants (1958)

Director:

Louis Malle

Writer:

Louise de Vilmorin (dialogue)

Release Date:

26 October 1959 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

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:

Secret Lover | Paris France | Castle | Sex | Burgundy

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Jeanne Moreau	...	Jeanne Tournier
Jean-Marc Bory	...	Bernard Dubois-Lambert
Judith Magre	...	Maggy Thiebaut-Leroy
José Luis de Villalonga	...	Raoul Flores (as José Villalonga)
Gaston Modot	...	Coudray
Pierre Frag
Michèle Girardon	...	La secrétaire
Gib Grossac
Lucienne Hamon	...	Chantal
Georgette Lobre	...	Marthe
Claude Mansard	...	Marcelot (as Claude Mansart)
Alain Cuny	...	Henri Tournier

Also Known As:

The Lovers (UK) (USA)

Runtime:

Argentina:90 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:15 | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

Burgundy, France

Company:

Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France

Trivia:

After screening this film, Nico Jacobellis, manager of the Heights Art 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

6.4 is a shame, 10 is the only option

It is a shame that so many people dared to vote less than a 10 for this brilliant movie. All these voters should be expelled from imdb, and never be allowed to return.The images the director creates and the psychological portraits of the personnages are so meaningful to better understanding of what it means to be alive, that this movie should be obligatorily seen by all. Or better not, because the mass won't understand the message about freedom and incertainty. The mass wants certainty and plain truths, not incertainty and hesitation.