A nous deux
France
, 110 min
Shown in 1979
CREDITS
- dir
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Claude Lelouch
- scr
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Claude Lelouch
- cam
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Bernard Zitzermann
- cast
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Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Villeret, Paul Preboist, Bernard Crommbey
- prod co
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Les Films 13
- source
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Les Films 13
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COMMENTS
Claude Lelouch in person.
OTHER
Claude Lelouch’s latest romantic adventure is his 23rd film in 20 years. Jacques Dutronc plays a small-time crook, a life he has fallen into mainly because his father was a gangster, too. Catherine Deneuve, a middle-class woman bearing the psychological scars of a brutal rape, earns her living by blackmailing her prominent lovers and by seducing men whose wives want grounds for divorce. Both on the lam from the police, they meet at a rural hideout arranged by Dutronc’s old uncle (played by Jacques Villeret, the loveable rotund half of Lelouch’s recent hit Robert and Robert). Their love slowly develops as they elude the authorities in a hair-raising series of adventures that take them to the South of France, Canada and the U.S.A. With the flair and sympathy that have made him one of the most internationally popular directors, Lelouch suggests that whatever one’s life has been, it is possible to make a new beginning, free from the limitations of the past.
—Mark Chase
FACTOID #33
French New Wave actress Jeanne Moreau’s 1974 Festival tribute, called “a veritable orgy” for her fans by the Examiner’s Stanley Eichelbaum, included screenings of four films (The Lovers, Jules and Jim, Bay of Angels and Diary of a Chambermaid), an onstage interview with Moreau and an additional two hours of clips. Running nine to 11 hours (depending on the source), the tribute was the longest recorded at the Festival.
