Michel Piccoli
Pierre Bérard
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Mar 13, 1970 · The Things of Life: Directed by Claude Sautet. With Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Gérard Lartigau, Jean Bouise. A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.
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- Drama, Romance
- Claude Sautet
- 1970-03-13
The Things of Life ( French: Les Choses de la vie) is a 1970 romantic drama film directed by Claude Sautet, based on the 1967 novel Intersection by Paul Guimard. The film centers around a car accident experienced by Pierre ( Michel Piccoli ), an architect, and the events before and after it. [2] The film won the Louis Delluc Prize, and had ...
- Intersection, by Paul Guimard
- Raymond Danon
Eventually, Helene puts her foot down and forces Pierre to choose between her and his wife, but, just as he is about to decide, fate tragically intervenes. Rating: PG. Genre: Drama. Original ...
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- Claude Sautet
- PG
- Michel Piccoli
Dec 12, 2023 · Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli in The Things of Life (1970) The sequences after the car crash are replete with sheer poetry. While waiting for an ambulance, a lifeless Pierre takes the audience to his world of imagination, where he dreams about his future wedding with Helène, accompanied by his friends, family, and also strangers who are present at the site of the accident.
Claude Sautet. Director, Screenplay. Paul Guimard. Novel, Screenplay. Jean-Loup Dabadie. Screenplay. The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a ...
The Things of Life is a 1970 romantic drama film directed by Claude Sautet, based on the 1967 novel Intersection by Paul Guimard. The film centers around a car accident experienced by Pierre, an architect, and the events before and after it. The film won the Louis Delluc Prize, and had 2,959,682 admissions in France, becoming the eighth highest-earning film of the year.
