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Overview
Release Date:
26 October 1959 (USA) moreTagline:
The most talked-about and fought-about film!Plot:
Bored with her husband, bored with her polo-playing lover, will the middle-aged heroine go away with... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 win & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
The Lovers moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Jeanne Moreau | ... | Jeanne Tournier |
| Alain Cuny | ... | Henri Tournier |
| José Luis de Villalonga | ... | Raoul Flores (as José Villalonga) |
| Jean-Marc Bory | ... | Bernard Dubois-Lambert |
| Judith Magre | ... | Maggy Thiebaut-Leroy |
| Gaston Modot | ... | Coudray |
| Michèle Girardon | ... | La secrétaire |
| Claude Mansard | ... | Marcelot |
| Georgette Lobre | ... | Marthe |
| Patricia Maurin | ... | Catherine, fille de Jeanne |
| Lucienne Hamon | ... | Chantal |
| Pierre Frag | ||
| Gib Grossac |
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Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
Argentina:90 minCountry:
FranceLanguage:
FrenchColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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After screening this film, Nico Jacobellis, manager of a motion picture theater in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was charged with and convicted of possessing and exhibiting an obscene film. He appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court, which overturned the convictions, ruling that the film was not obscene. In a concurring opinion, Justice Potter Stewart made his famous pronouncement concerning what was pornography: "I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184, 197 (1964) (Stewart, J., concurring). moreSoundtrack:
Streichsextett No. 1 moreFAQ
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What you see here is Jeanne Moreau's famous first filmic female orgasm and director Louis Malle's second feature film. Les amants / The Lovers was at that time a controversial study of bourgeois emptiness and sexual yearnings. The (as widely described) inscrutable Moreau plays a high society wife who is bored by her rich husband, has a lover, smart friends and a daughter. On one night she makes passionate love with a young student of a few hours acquaintance, and leaves it all for a new life.
If it now looks too much like an angry young sensualist's movie, the combination of a body language that is highly pleasurable, the soundtrack of Brahms, and the Henri Decaë's velvety monochrome, ravishing photography proves hard to resist. Her second collaboration with director Malle shows once more, what a wonderful screen persona Moreau is: commanding, willful, sultry.