The Things of Life

The Things of Life French Les Choses de la vie is a 1970 French film directed by Claude Sautet. It is based on the novel Intersection by Paul Guimard. It was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. The film was a success in France with 2,959,682 admissions becoming the 8th highest earning film of the year.

A Paris architect in his forties driving to a meeting at Rennes, he had quarrelled with his lover Hlne the night before. They were due to leave together for a job he was offered in Tunis but he had not signed the documents. And he had agreed to take his teenage son Bertrand, who lived with his estranged wife Catherine, for a fortnight to the familys holiday home on the le de R. Stopping at a caf, he wrote a letter to Hlne calling everything off, but did not post it. Driving past a wedding, he realised that the letter was quite wrong and he should in fact marry Hlne, so giving a purpose to the rest of their lives.Rushed to hospital in Le Mans, he does not recover and Catherine as his widow is given his effects, including the unsent letter which she tears to pieces. Hlne arrives at the hospital and is told by a nurse that she is too late. ........

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