Les Uns et les Autres (1981)

Original title

Les uns et les autres

Directed by

Claude Lelouch

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

3h 04m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 88 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows several families from different countries whose lives intersect through music and dance over decades. It begins before World War II and moves through the mid-20th century, focusing on their loves, losses and dreams set to Ravel's Bolero.

epicmelancholicsweepingmusicalemotionalnostalgicbittersweetambitioussentimental

What happens

Les Uns et les Autres (English: The Ones and the Others) is a 1981 French film by Claude Lelouch. The film is a musical epic and it is widely considered as the director's best work, along with Un Homme et une Femme (A Man and a Woman). It won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. In the United States, it was distributed under the name Boléro in reference to Maurice Ravel's orchestral piece, used in the film. The film was very successful in France with 3,234,549 admissions and was the 6th highest-grossing film of the year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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