Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her...
Acting
Baye plays three women; Delon remains gloriously clueless.
Direction
Blier's tonal whiplash between farce and melancholy.
Writing
Dialogue that mocks male self-importance mercilessly.
Director
Bertrand Blier
Alain Delon
Robert Avranche
Nathalie Baye
Donatienne Pouget / Marie-Thérèse Chatelard / Geneviève Avranche
Gérard Darmon
Duval
Geneviève Fontanel
Madeleine Pecqueur
Michel Galabru
Emile Pecqueur
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
le second passager
Sabine Haudepin
Carmen
Vincent Lindon
Brechet
Jean Reno
A neighbour
Ginette Garcin
The florist
Bernard Farcy
Farid
Paul Guers
Clark
Jean-Louis Foulquier
Bob
Jean-François Stévenin
Chatelard
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Un voisin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Blier wrote the screenplay specifically for Delon after their collaboration on 'Notre histoire'—the title's possessive irony intentional.
Baye's triple role reflects Blier's recurring theme: men project fantasies onto women who are far more complex than their pursuers imagine. The film's French title means 'Our Story,' but whose story is it really?
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