Overview
Release Date:
26 October 1959 (USA)
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Tagline:
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...
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Awards:
1 win
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1 nomination
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User Comments:
NOW PLAYING on the BIG SCREEN at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade theater today, tomorrow, and June 29 - check it out!!!
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Additional Details
Also Known As:
The Lovers (UK) (USA)
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Runtime:
Argentina:90 min
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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4% since last week
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Trivia:
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).
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Soundtrack:
Streichsextett No. 1
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The legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau shows why even at this early stage of her career she was destined to become one of the greats (along with tyro-director Louis Malle).
Perfect film for chickflickers as the plot line revolves around a married woman who can't decide between her loveless marriage, her playboy lover, or perhaps the next stranger she meets.
Still stands up after all these years and yes it's been re-struck in its original 35mm widescreen form (in gorgeous BLACK & WHITE, too)!
NOTE: If you live in NYC there is a full Louis Malle retrospective going on thru July 19, 2005 and this film is being screened today, tomorrow, and June 29 with a gorgeously restored black and white print at the Walter Reade theater.