La Femme d'à côté
"A destructive passion between desire and madness."
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
"A destructive passion between desire and madness."
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
Gérard Depardieu
Bernard Coudray
Fanny Ardant
Mathilde Bauchard
Henri Garcin
Philippe Bauchard
Michèle Baumgartner
Arlette Coudray
Roger Van Hool
Roland Duguet
Véronique Silver
Madame Odile Jouve
Philippe Morier-Genoud
Doctor
Nicole Vauthier
Hotel concierge
Muriel Combe
Nicole
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
You can just imagine the scenario. "Bernard" (Gerard Depardieu) is living quite contentedly with his wife "Arlette" (Michèle Baumgartner) and their young son when they get new next-door neighbours. "Philippe" (Henri Garcin) and wife "Mathilde" (Fanny Ardant). Well ardent might have been a more appropriate spelling as it turns out that "Bernard" and "Mathilde" have a bit of history that time hasn't quite satiated. Ostensibly, they present a friendly front to their respective families and neighbours, but we soon appreciate the things are smouldering and that events eight years ago did not end well - for either of them. With their behaviour becoming more erratic and tensions mounting, well who knows what's going to happen next. This might be my favourite Depardieu performance as he really does thrown himself into the role body and soul, and with Ardant delivering an equally impassioned characterisation we are presented with a lively, tempestuous and at times quite visceral series of scenes as things spiral out of control. I'm not always a fan of narration but here, the sparing use of commentary from local tennis club boss "Madame Jouve" (Véronique Silver) helps fill in the gaps but also lets off some of the steam - physically and metaphorically, as the story becomes more involved. Talk about neighbours from hell...!
A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.
Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year old African-American Bill. Initially she is annoyed by his insouciance, but she finds that she is irresistibly attracted to him. Soon the two are in the midst of sordid illicit affair. She knows little about her new lover, and he seems uninterested in learning about her, but the long sessions of lovemaking are something else entirely. Feeling out of control, Marie is increasingly repelled by her own actions. Psychologically, she struggles to reconcile her torrid encounters with Bill and mundane domestic chores such as bathing her son. Moreover, she finds herself incapable of hiding her adulterous behavior, rather she comes home with scratches and hickeys all over her body, to the devastation Francois.
A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.
The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.
A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.
In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.
ชายคนหนึ่งได้รับมากกว่าที่เขาต่อรองไว้หลังจากมีสัมพันธ์กับภรรยาของนายธนาคารเพื่อการลงทุน ในไม่ช้า การเสียชีวิตอย่างน่าสงสัยและกรมธรรม์ประกันชีวิตจำนวนมากก็ทำให้เขาเข้าไปพัวพันกับเรื่องอื้อฉาว
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
ไฟตัณหาอาจแผดเผาชีวิตคู่แสนสุขจนมอดไหม้ เมื่อคอนนี่ หญิงจากย่านชานเมืองแสนเงียบเหงา แอบไปมีสัมพันธ์ลับสุดเร่าร้อนกับชายหนุ่มอายุน้อยกว่า