Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, José Luis de Villalonga & Jean-Marc Bory
Director: Louis Malle
Rating:
Enetertainment Quotient: 40%
Genre: Romance
Runtime: 90 min
Language: French
MPAA rating: Unrated

Synopsis:
Jeanne (Jeanne Moreau) is married to a rich news publisher Henri (Alain Cuny) for eight years. Henri is passionate about his work and neglects his wife. She goes to Paris to meet a lady friend every fortnight. There she gets to know a polo player Raoul (José Luis de Villalonga) and falls in love with him. Henri asks his wife to invite her friends to his house. During a journey Jeanne’s car breaks down. Bernard (Jean-Marc Bory) gives her a lift. She finds him interesting. Henri asks Bernard to stay at their place overnight. During the night Bernard and Jeanne fall in love and the next morning they runaway.

What I liked in the film?
It is about the emptiness of a middle aged woman who falls in love with a student. She elopes with him overnight by leaving her rich husband and a baby girl. A French director attempted this kind of bold subject in 1960. The entire sequence of the student taking the lady into new world in the last half-an hour is poetic. Jeanne Moreau is absolutely fabulous.

Tailpiece:
An exhibitor in Ohio was convicted in local court for showing Amants, Les (1958) which is considered as an obscene film at that time. This film was also banned in several states of USA. This film became a major example of freedom of expression in those days.