The read
Critics rate it 30 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 30 points higher than audiences do.
61 audience votes
Key crew
- Diane KurysDirector
- Diane KurysWriter
- Alain Le HenryWriter
- Luis BacalovOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Miou-MiouMadeleine
- Isabelle HuppertLena Weber
- Guy MarchandMichel Korski
- Jean-Pierre BacriCosta Segara
- Robin RenucciRaymond
- Patrick BauchauCarlier
- Jacques AlricMr. Vernier
- Jacqueline DoyenMme Vernier
- Saga BlanchardSophie
- Guillaume Le GuellecRené
- Christine PascalSarah
- Jacques BlalLionel Feldman