La femme d'à côté (1981)
(The Woman Next Door)
Country: FR
Technical: col 106m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant
Synopsis:
Eight years after a damaging affair with another woman, a tanker pilot instructor lives contentedly in a Grenoblois village with his wife and small boy, until the day that his ex moves in next door with her air traffic controller husband.
Review:
One could have fun reading things into the professions of the respective husbands but Truffaut's penultimate film is a mostly depressing affair. Attempting to depict the love that brushes aside everything in its path, he was convinced of the chemistry between his young mistress and the star of the national cinema, though it is an altogether different stiffness that generally fills the screen. Part of the trouble is the director's manner with actors, often maintaining a distance behind text and composition, so that the experience of his films is not unlike watching a Luis Buñuel; there the intention was very different, however. An abiding professionalism and one or two humorous moments remain.
(The Woman Next Door)
Country: FR
Technical: col 106m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant
Synopsis:
Eight years after a damaging affair with another woman, a tanker pilot instructor lives contentedly in a Grenoblois village with his wife and small boy, until the day that his ex moves in next door with her air traffic controller husband.
Review:
One could have fun reading things into the professions of the respective husbands but Truffaut's penultimate film is a mostly depressing affair. Attempting to depict the love that brushes aside everything in its path, he was convinced of the chemistry between his young mistress and the star of the national cinema, though it is an altogether different stiffness that generally fills the screen. Part of the trouble is the director's manner with actors, often maintaining a distance behind text and composition, so that the experience of his films is not unlike watching a Luis Buñuel; there the intention was very different, however. An abiding professionalism and one or two humorous moments remain.
(The Woman Next Door)
Country: FR
Technical: col 106m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant
Synopsis:
Eight years after a damaging affair with another woman, a tanker pilot instructor lives contentedly in a Grenoblois village with his wife and small boy, until the day that his ex moves in next door with her air traffic controller husband.
Review:
One could have fun reading things into the professions of the respective husbands but Truffaut's penultimate film is a mostly depressing affair. Attempting to depict the love that brushes aside everything in its path, he was convinced of the chemistry between his young mistress and the star of the national cinema, though it is an altogether different stiffness that generally fills the screen. Part of the trouble is the director's manner with actors, often maintaining a distance behind text and composition, so that the experience of his films is not unlike watching a Luis Buñuel; there the intention was very different, however. An abiding professionalism and one or two humorous moments remain.