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Les Amants (1958)
Director: Louis Malle
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From Time Out Film Guide
In Malle's second feature, he continued his association with new star Moreau in an (at the time) controversial study of bourgeois emptiness and sexual yearnings. She plays a chic, high society wife with money, a daughter, smart friends and a casual lover. Then one night, she makes passionate love with a young student of a few hours acquaintance, and leaves it all for a new life. If it now looks too much like an angry young sensualist's movie, the combination of highly pleasurable body language, Brahms on the soundtrack, and the ravishing, velvety monochrome photography of Henri Decaë proves hard to resist. The film established Moreau's screen persona - commanding, wilful, sultry - but it marked the stylistically-conscious Malle apart from his more tearaway nouvelle vague colleagues.Author: DT
Cast & crew
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, José Villalonga, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre, Gaston Modot, Michèle Girardon full cast
Duration: 88 mins
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