Entre Nous
Entre Nous Between Us also known as Coup de foudre is a 1983 French biographical drama film directed by Diane Kurys, who shares the writing credits with Olivier Cohen. Set in the France of the mid twentieth century, the film stars Isabelle Huppert, MiouMiou, Guy Marchand, JeanPierre Bacri, Christine Pascal, Denis Lavant and Dominique Lavanant. Coup de Foudre means love at first sight.
But she has no choice and they hasten to the Italian border. By 1952, the hardworking Michel has got himself his own garage in Lyon, and they have two small daughters. Lena meets Madeleine MiouMiou, at a school pageant. Madeleine, who comes from a moderately wealthy family, was an art student in 1942, and had married a fellow student who was killed in a street skirmish between the students and the collaborationist police. A widow at 19, Madeleine drifted into marriage with an actorblack marketeer, Costa JeanPierre Bacri, and now has a son at the school. The two women become inseparable, in one scene, sharing a bed though there is no overt lesbian sexuality between the characters.They develop an intimacy that is based partly on their boredom with their domestic situations. Michel and Lenas marriage is fractious, although there are moments of happiness with their two young daughters, and the film is primarily about Lena leaving her husband. At the end of the film, she and Madeleine who left her own husband sometime earlier, had trouble holding down a job, and went through a nervous breakdown, are about to open a dress shop in Paris. ........
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