Jeanne, mother of two children, loses her husband. She meets Pierre, abandoned by his wife.
Acting
Girardot's face does three acts of grief in one look.
Direction
Mizrahi lets silences breathe like another character.
Director
Moshé Mizrahi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Moshé Mizrahi won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film the previous year with 'Madame Rosa' — this was his quieter follow-up.
1981 France was still processing its own collective grief post-68; the film's refusal of melodrama felt radical against the era's bigger dramas.
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