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43 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

Miou-Miou
Madeleine

Isabelle Huppert
Lena Weber

Guy Marchand
Michel Korski

Jean-Pierre Bacri
Costa Segara

Robin Renucci
Raymond

Patrick Bauchau
Carlier

Jacques Alric
Mr. Vernier

Jacqueline Doyen
Mme Vernier
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Diane Kurys directs. Bernard Lutic behind the camera. Luis Bacalov scores. Joële Van Effenterre cuts. Produced in France. Dialogue in French.
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S.F.P.C.
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Alexandre Films
FR

Hachette Première
FR
Films A2
FR
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