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The Lovers ()

Les amants (original title)
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Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.
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Jeanne Tournier
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Bernard Dubois-Lambert
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Maggy Thiebaut-Leroy
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Raoul Florès (as José Villalonga)
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Coudray
Pierre Frag
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Hélène Cavalier
Gib Grossac
Lucienne Hamon ...
Chantal
Georgette Lobre ...
Marthe
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Marcelot (as Claude Mansart)
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Henri Tournier
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Un Garçon a Manège (uncredited)
Patricia Maurin ...
Catherine Tournier (uncredited)

Directed by

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Louis Malle

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Louise de Vilmorin ... (dialogue)
 
Dominique Vivant ... (novel "Point de lendemain") (uncredited)

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Henri Decaë ... director of photography (as Henri Decae)

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Léonide Azar

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Madeleine Bibollet ... assistant editor
Kenout Peltier ... assistant editor

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Bernard Evein

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Jacques Saulnier

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Gisèle Jacquin ... makeup artist

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Irénée Leriche ... production manager
Hubert Mérial ... unit manager

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Alain Cavalier ... assistant director
François Leterrier ... second assistant director

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Charles Merangel ... property master

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Pierre-André Bertrand ... sound engineer (as Pierre Bertrand)

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André Bouladoux ... key grip
Vincent Rossell ... photographer
André Villard ... camera operator

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Serge Baudo ... conductor
Johannes Brahms ... composer: theme music

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Francine Corteggiani ... script girl

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Plot Summary

The bored and empty upper-class Jeanne Tournier lives in a manor with many servants in the countryside of Dijon with her husband Henri Tournier and their daughter Catherine. Henri is the editor of The Burgundy Monitor and has been married to Jeanne for eight years, but he does pay attention to his wife. Jeanne travels frequently to the house of her childhood friend Maggy Thiebaut-Leroy in Paris to meet her lover, the famous polo player Raoul Flores. One day, Henri suspects of the frequent trips of Jeanne to Paris and invites Maggy and Raoul Flores to have dinner and spend the weekend in his mansion. While driving back home from Paris, Jeanne car breaks down and the archaeologist Bernard Dubois-Lambert who is going to Montbard to visit a professor, gives a ride to Jeanne. Henri invites Bernard to stay with them. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Taglines THIS WAS HER MOMENT!...and nothing else mattered! See more »
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Also Known As
  • The Lovers (Canada, English title)
  • The Lovers (United States)
  • The Lovers (India, English title)
  • The Lovers (World-wide, English title)
  • The Lovers (United Kingdom)
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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). See more »
Goofs When Jeanne and Bernard are sitting at the table at the end of the film, the camera moves towards them and becomes visible in the mirror on the wall. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Musique et cinéma: 1 La musique de films (1969). See more »
Soundtracks String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major Op. 18 II. Andante ma moderato See more »
Quotes Bernard Dubois-Lambert: "The moon rising in cloudless skies, suddenly bathed her in its silver beam."
Jeanne Tournier: Whom do you mean?
Bernard Dubois-Lambert: "She saw her image glowing in my eyes. Her smile like an angel's did gleam."
Jeanne Tournier: "The night is beautiful."
Bernard Dubois-Lambert: "The night is a woman."
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