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The Woman Next Door
La Femme d’à côté
Truffaut’s cautionary tale about the unexpected encounter of former lovers now married.
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Director
François Truffaut
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With
Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner, Véronique Silver
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France 1981. 106min
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Digital
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Certificate
12A
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English subtitles
At times reminiscent of the films of Claude Chabrol (another Hitchcock admirer), this finds the life of the happily married Bernard (Depardieu) thrown into turmoil when Mathilde (Ardant) – an old flame, now also happily married – moves into the house opposite his own. The film is both an insightful account of bourgeois mores and a dark study of psychological instability, as emotions spiral out of control.
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