L'Ennui (1998)

Original title

L'ennui

Directed by

Cédric Kahn

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

2h 02m

Rated

16

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 55 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A philosopher grows restless with his monotonous life. He becomes fixated on a younger woman who was the lover of a recently deceased painter, and his obsession turns into jealousy.

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What happens

L'Ennui (English: Boredom) is a 1998 erotic drama film directed by Cédric Kahn from a screenplay he co-wrote with Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, based on the 1960 novel La noia by Alberto Moravia. The film stars Charles Berling, Sophie Guillemin and Arielle Dombasle, with Robert Kramer, Alice Grey and Maurice Antoni. It follows the life of a bored philosopher as he becomes jealously obsessed with the much younger lover of a dead painter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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