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Overview
Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale is a French-Italian film first released in 1963,
directed by André Cayatte.
The film stars Jacques Charrier, Marie-José Nat, Michel Subor, Macha Méril and Alfred Adam.
It has also been released under the title: Anatomy of a Marriage.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
This is the story of a couple in the 1960s, told in two separate films:
Jean-Marc et la vie conjugale is the
husband’s point of view;
Françoise et la vie conjugale is the
wife’s point of view of the same story.
Through the intervention of mutual friends, Jean-Marc and
Françoise meet at university. They slowly get to know one
another and are soon lovers. Having passed his exams, Jean-Marc
becomes a lawyer and he and Françoise have a child. They
decide to get married. At the start of his career, Jean-Marc
finds a job in a small provincial town. Françoise is
uneasy about leaving Paris but she agrees to follow her husband.
It is not long before Françoise gets bored and asks Jean-Marc to
return to the city. The strains of the relationship are beginning
to show. Will their marriage stand the test of time?
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium) Film Review
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