A Man and a Woman (1966)

Original title

Un homme et une femme

Directed by

Claude Lelouch

Genre

drama film, romance film, melodrama

Country

France

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

14

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 313 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widower and a widow meet at their children's boarding school. They start a romance while dealing with the memories of their late spouses.

romanticbittersweetmelancholicvisually lushslow-pacedtenderyearningnostalgic

What happens

A Man and a Woman (French: Un homme et une femme) is a 1966 French romantic drama film directed by Claude Lelouch and starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Written by Pierre Uytterhoeven and Lelouch, the film concerns a young widow and widower who meet by chance at their children's boarding school and whose budding relationship is complicated by the memories of their deceased spouses. The film is known for its lush photography, which features frequent segues among full color, black-and-white, and sepia-toned shots, and for its music score by Francis Lai. A Man and a Woman sold a total of 4,272,000 cinema tickets in France and was the sixth highest-grossing film of the year. In the United States, the film grossed $14 million. The film won several awards, including the Grand Prix at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, two Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress – Drama (for Aimée), and two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay. It was followed by two sequels, A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986) and The Best Years of a Life (2019). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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