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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:
Early Louis Malle Classic 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:
MonoMOVIEmeter: 
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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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Luminously inscrutable Jeanne Moreau gives one of her best performances in Louis Malle's "The Lovers" (1958:***1/2), a chic and entertaining romantic drama that was quite controversial in its day because of a prolonged love scene in the last half hour. Of course, today it seems very innocent, indeed. She plays the bored wife of a wealthy newspaper owner who impulsively decides to runs off with a young man who picks her up after her car stalls on the highway. Since the lover is played by a handsome young actor named Jean-Marc Bory (wonder whatever happened to him), who could blame her? Malle offers delicate hints during the morning after that the affair may not last too long. All-in-all, an exquisite film. The video version is letterboxed, too, which is a big plus.