Gérard Depardieu
Bernard Coudray
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Sep 30, 1981 · The Woman Next Door: Directed by François Truffaut. With Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner. Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
Reminiscent of the medieval legend of Tristan and Iseult but set among young middle-class people in a provincial city, it tells the story of a fatal romance between a loving husband (Gérard Depardieu) and the attractive woman (Fanny Ardant) who moves in next door.
“The Woman Next Door” opens as a simple story about two houses. They are next door to one another. The story gets a great deal less simple after we meet the inhabitants of the houses. The house on the right is lived in by Gerard Depardieu, a big, friendly lunk of a guy who loves his wife and kids.
Bernard Coudray (Gérard Depardieu), a teacher, lives with his wife and small son in quiet, idyllic rural France. One day, though, a married couple moves into the house next door.
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Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue. Director: François Truffaut Writers: François Truffaut (original scenario) Suzanne...
The Woman Next Door. Directed by François Truffaut • 1981 • France. Starring Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin. François Truffaut puts a contemporary spin on the legend of Tristan and Isolde in this Hitchcockian study of guilt and romantic obsession.
Sep 19, 1994 · With The Woman Next Door, François Truffaut not only continued a grand tradition of sensibility, he broke new ground in his own career. The Woman Next Door is clearly Truffaut’s most Jamesian film in its mastery of oblique narrative and ironic perspective.
