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The Lovers

Les amants

1958

Louis Malle

Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre ...

7.0

1,608

Drama. Romance Bored with her husband, bored with her polo-playing lover, will the middle-aged heroine go away with the young man who gave her a lift that day when her car broke down on the way back to her country estate from a weekend with her lover in Paris?

	Media	Author	Review
		John Davidson Austin Chronicle	"[It has] a decidedly literary sensibility (...) [It] possesses the kind of density you're more likely to find in a novel"
		A.H. Weiler The New York Times	"A truly tender and compassionate examination of a sudden torrid love affair. Unfortunately, it is weighted down by an abundance of saccharine and obvious preliminaries"
		Time Out	"The film established Moreau's screen persona - commanding, wilful, sultry - but it marked the stylistically-conscious Malle apart from his more tearaway nouvelle vague colleagues."
		Dan Callahan Slant	"Given Moreau’s weighted intensity, you don’t have to understand French to catch the dangerous nuances of her vocal delivery (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Rodrigo Perez IndieWire	"One of Malle’s best pictures"

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