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Details:
(aka La Femme d'à côté). Produced by Les Films du Carrosse (French) and TF1 (French), 1981. Directed by François Truffaut (The Last Metro). French language with English subtitles. Filmed in Grenoble, Rhône-Alpes, France.
Details:
Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner and Véronique Silver.
Plot Summary:
Bernard (Depardieu) has a pleasant marriage, a young son, and a nice home. Everything's going well until the house next door is rented . . . to Bernard's old flame, Mathilde. Even though both are married to different people, they take up where they left off, which is to say a very troubled, rocky, passionate and argumentative relationship -- what we here in the States might call "co-dependent." Mathilde tries to call it off for good, but Bernard gets violent. Then he goes cold towards her (as he often used to do) and suddenly she can't live without him. These two bring out the worst in each other and there's no happy ending in sight.
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