This dark entry from Truffaut pairs French superstar Depardieu with newcomer Ardant as former flames who have married other people and now live next door to each other. Depardieu, who has been living a comfortable though joyless bourgeois existence with his wife and young son, tries to
avoid Ardant at every turn. A chance meeting at the supermarket, however, opens a floodgate of buried emotions, and the romance is resumed. Gradually, Depardieu and Ardant's mutual obsession builds to a dangerous level that neither can control. As he did in JULES AND JIM and THE STORY OF ADELE H.,
Truffaut once again displays his interest in obsessive love and the pain and destructio...
Released:
1981
Rated:
R
Length:
106 mins