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Live for Life (1967)

Live for Life poster
Original title
Vivre pour vivre
Directed by
Claude Lelouch
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
2h 10m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 20 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A married television reporter begins an affair with a young American woman in Paris. His wife confronts him about the relationship.

romanticmelancholicbittersweetelegantintrospectivedramaticslow-burn

What happens

Live for Life (French: Vivre pour vivre) is a 1967 French film directed by Claude Lelouch starring Yves Montand, Candice Bergen and Annie Girardot. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film had a total of 2,936,035 admissions in France and was the 7th highest-grossing film of the year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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