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The Lovers

The Lovers

1958, Movie, 1h 31min

Louis Malle unveiled the natural beauty of Jeanne Moreau in his breakthrough, ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS. With his follow-up, the scandalous smash THE LOVERS (LES AMANTS), he made her a star once and for all. A deeply felt and luxuriously filmed fairy tale for grown-ups, perched on the edge between classical and New Wave cinemas, THE LOVERS presents Moreau as a restless bourgeois wife whose eye wanders from both her husband and her lover to an attractive passing stranger (Jean-Marc Bory). Thanks to its frank sexuality, THE LOVERS caused quite a stir, being censored and attacked for obscenity around the world. If today its shock has worn off, its glistening sensuality and seductive storytelling haven’t aged a day.

Country: France

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Jean-Claude Brialy,

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Critic David Parkinson

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8

Seen today, it's hard to understand how so delicate a sex scene could have caused such uproar.

Read full review at Empire

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You can stream The Lovers on: The Criterion Channel

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Lovers include Sissi: The Young Empress, Sins of Rachel Cade, A Star Is Born, La Notte, أيامنا الحلوة (Our Beautiful Days), The Best of Everything.

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The Lovers was released in theaters on October 26, 1959.