The Woman Next Door (1981)

Original title

La Femme d'à côté

Directed by

François Truffaut

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

R

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 340 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A loving husband meets the woman who moves in next door. She is an old flame, and they begin a passionate affair that leads to tragedy.

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What happens

The Woman Next Door (French: La Femme d'à côté) is a 1981 French romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut. Reminiscent of the medieval legend of Tristan and Iseult but set among young middle-class people in a provincial city, it tells the story of a fatal romance between a loving husband (Gérard Depardieu) and the attractive woman (Fanny Ardant) who moves in next door. The last of Truffaut's serious films, being followed by the more light-hearted Vivement dimanche!, it was the 39th highest-grossing film of the year, with a total of 1,087,600 admissions in France. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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