Amants, Les (1958)

Director:

Louis Malle

Writer:

Louise de Vilmorin (dialogue)

Release Date:

26 October 1959 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

The most talked-about and fought-about film!

Plot:

Bored with her husband, bored with her polo-playing lover, will the middle-aged heroine go away with...

Plot Keywords:

Husband Wife Relationship | Workaholic | Sex | Secret Lover | Car Breakdown

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Jeanne Moreau	...	Jeanne Tournier
Alain Cuny	...	Henri Tournier
José Luis de Villalonga	...	Raoul Flores (as José Villalonga)
Jean-Marc Bory	...	Bernard Dubois-Lambert
Judith Magre	...	Maggy Thiebaut-Leroy
Gaston Modot	...	Coudray
Michèle Girardon	...	La secrétaire
Claude Mansard	...	Marcelot
Georgette Lobre	...	Marthe
Patricia Maurin	...	Catherine, fille de Jeanne
Lucienne Hamon	...	Chantal
Pierre Frag
Gib Grossac

Also Known As:

The Lovers (UK) (USA)

Runtime:

Argentina:90 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

Burgundy, France

Company:

Nouvelles Éditions de Films

Trivia:

After screening this film, Nico Jacobellis, manager of a motion picture 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).

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Mau Mau Sex Sex (2001)

Soundtrack:

Streichsextett No. 1

6.4 is a shame, 10 is the only option

It is a shame that so many people dared to vote less than a 10 for this brilliant movie. All these voters should be expelled from imdb, and never be allowed to return.The images the director creates and the psychological portraits of the personnages are so meaningful to better understanding of what it means to be alive, that this movie should be obligatorily seen by all. Or better not, because the mass won't understand the message about freedom and incertainty. The mass wants certainty and plain truths, not incertainty and hesitation.