Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà (1986)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Claude Lelouch

Writers:

Claude Lelouch (original scenario & adaptation and dialogue) and
Pierre Uytterhoeven (adaptation) ...

Release Date:

15 August 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Tout a change... sauf leurs passions.

Plot:

Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women...

Plot Keywords:

Sequel | Number In Title

Cast

Anouk Aimée	...	Anne Gauthier
Jean-Louis Trintignant	...	Jean-Louis Duroc
Richard Berry	...	Richard Berry
Evelyne Bouix	...	Françoise
Marie-Sophie L.	...	Marie-Sophie (as Marie-Sophie Pochat)
Philippe Leroy	...	Professeur Thevenin / Professor Thevenin (as Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu)
Charles Gérard	...	Charlot
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor	...	Himself / Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
Thierry Sabine	...	Thierry Sabine
Antoine Sire	...	Antoine
André Engel	...	Le metteur en scène / Film director
Robert Hossein	...	Robert Hossein
Jacques Weber	...	Jacques Weber
Tanya Lopert	...	Tanya Lopert
Nicole Garcia	...	Elle-même jouant 'Deux sur la balançoire'

Also Known As:

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (Canada: English title) (USA)

Runtime:

112 min | USA:102 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Canada:14+ (Ontario) | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:11 | USA:PG | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Paris Studios Cinéma, Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Company:

Les Films 13

Movie Connections:

Features Dial M for Murder (1954)

Very pale sequel

Sometimes Claude Lelouch makes good films or masterpieces, sometimes not at all.

This sequel of "Un homme et une femme" is useless. It's not a bad movie in itself, because it's well acted, well made and very refined -high quality is a trademark in Lelouch movies. That's why I give 4 stars out of 10...

But it's a useless project. Was it necessary to go back to the story and spoil the original picture? The 1966 film is very simple -it's a masterpiece because of that. There are only Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée, the chemistry is incredible. The film is really poetic, we don't want to know how their love story goes on.

In the 1986 sequel we find them 20 years later -Lelouch tells us what they have become and how they meet again. There are other characters and facts which intersect with them.

As I said not a really bad movie, but it doesn't stand comparison at all with the original. It would have been better not to produce it.