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Fanny Ardant
Mathilde Bauchard
Michèle Baumgartner
Arlette Coudray
- Véronique Silver
Madame Odile Jouve
- Catherine Crassac
Woman in the Hotel's Staircase
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue. Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house.
The Woman Next Door. 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 ...
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François Truffaut completed The Woman Next Door in 1981, which was the best of times and - in retrospect - the worst of times for him. It was the best of times because a year earlier he had directed two of France's greatest stars, Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, in The Last Metro, about an actress who hides her Jewish husband from the Nazis during the German occupation of France in ...
Cast. 106 mins More at IMDb TMDb. Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ...
François Truffaut France, 1981. Simmering with illicit desire, François Truffaut’s tempestuous drama stars Fanny Ardant in her first collaboration with the director. Unable to be with or without the other, the film’s doomed lovers are consumed by the twin flames of an extramarital affair, in which guilt coexists with pleasure.
Critics reviews. Bernard, a teacher, lives with his wife and son in quiet, rural France. One day, a married couple moves into the house next door. The woman, Mathilde, happens to be Bernard’s ex-lover, with whom he had an intense affair. Meeting each other once again, they are sucked into that same passion….
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. Happily married Bernard Coudray (Gérard Depardieu) finds his seemingly ...
