The Things of Life (1970)
- Original title
- Les Choses de la vie
- Directed by
- Claude Sautet
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Rated
- 14
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 266 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
An architect gets into a car accident. The film shows his life in the moments before the crash and the aftermath of the event.
melancholicreflectivetensecontemplativeintimateslow-burnrealisticpoignant
What happens
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. The film won the Louis Delluc Prize, and had 2,959,682 admissions in France, becoming the eighth highest-earning film of the year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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