The Long Absence (1961)
- Original title
- Une aussi longue absence
- Directed by
- Henri Colpi
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 41 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A woman who runs a cafe believes a tramp with amnesia is her husband who disappeared years ago. She tries to help him remember their past together.
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What happens
The Long Absence (French: Une aussi longue absence, lit. 'Such a long absence') is a 1961 French drama film directed by Henri Colpi. It tells the story of Thérèse (Alida Valli), a Puteaux café owner mourning the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times. The Long Absence shared the Palme d'Or prize with the Luis Buñuel film Viridiana at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. It also won the 1960 Louis Delluc Prize for best film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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