
“The motion picture that must end...to begin.”
Catherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-old baby, they face a slow but definite self-destruction.
Release Date: 10/8/1971
Runtime: 90 minutes
Languages: French
Director: Nadine Trintignant
00Companies: Marianne Productions, Mars International Productions, Les Films 13
Countries: France
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"yesterday, we were good. we lived a normal life without even realizing it." exhausting. the score is anxious and unrelenting. the set design is meticulous, subtley shifting from the messiness of parenthood to the disastrous yet barren mess of depression. the choppy editing shows just how quickly things can change. how quickly you remember that everything isn't as it once was, and the joy you once held fades into nothing. that scene with catherine deneuve screaming and crying in the hospital while marcello mastroianni just falls to the ground will be burned into my mind forever. "so what can you do?" "live for her. breathe for her. laugh for her. one must live. one must live."

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine

Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello

Serge Marquand
Le frère de Catherine

Danièle Lebrun
Sophie

Dominique Labourier
Marguerite

Catherine Allégret
La mère dans le parc

Marc Eyraud
Rosa Chiara Magrini
La soeur de Marcello

Benoît Ferreux
La petite fille

Marie Trintignant
Édouard Niermans
Le jeune homme
Michel Gudin
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