Summary
Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering
from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean
nor his girlfriend Eloïse can help him, he decides to stay with
his sister Odile, who lives near Limoges. At a party one evening
he meets a wealthy bourgeois woman named Nathalie Sylvener. It is
love at first sight, and on his return to Paris, Gilles tells
Eloïse that he is now devotedly attached to another woman.
Although Nathalie agrees to live with him in Paris, she rejects Gilles’
offer of marriage. It is not long before the couple have settled
into a routine and their passion begins to cool. Then Nathalie
suddenly disappears from Gilles’ life...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
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Credits
- Director: Jacques Deray
- Script: Françoise Sagan, Jean-Claude Carrière, Jacques Deray
- Photo: Jean Badal
- Music: Michel Legrand
- Cast: Claudine Auger (Nathalie Silvener), Marc Porel (Gilles Lantier), Judith Magre (Odile), Barbara Bach (Héloïse), André Falcon (Florent), Jean-Claude Carrière (François, le mari de Nathalie), Nadine Alari (Gilda), Gérard Depardieu (Pierre, le frère de Nathalie), Marc Eyraud (M. Rouargue), Jacques Debary (Fairmont), Max Vialle (M. Pontier), Roger Pelletier, Guido Mannari (Thomas), Mireille Perrey, Paula Dehelly (Mme Rouargue)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 110 min
- Aka: A Few Hours of Sunlight; A Little Sun in Cold Water; Sunlight on Cold Water
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