Lovers Like Us (French: Le Sauvage; "The Savage"; also known in English as Call Me Savage) is a 1975 French adventure comedy-drama romance film starring Yves Montand and Catherine Deneuve. The film was a commercial success with a total of 2,373,738 admissions in France and was the 12th highest-grossing film of the year.[2]
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Directed by | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
Written by | Jean-Loup Dabadie Élisabeth Rappeneau Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
Produced by | Raymond Danon Jean-Luc Ormières |
Starring | Yves Montand Catherine Deneuve |
Cinematography | Pierre Lhomme Antoine Roch |
Music by | Michel Legrand |
Production companies | Lira Films Produzioni Artistiche Internazionali |
Distributed by | Gaumount |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Countries | France Italy |
Language | French |
Box office | $17.8 million[1] |
Scant days before her wedding to Vittorio, Nelly (Deneuve) has a change of heart and runs away. As Vittorio pursues her through Caracas, she turns for help first to Alex (Roberts), a previous employer, and then to Martin (Montand), a middle-aged French man she meets by chance. Martin drives her to the airport, where she gets a plane ticket to Paris. Returning by boat to his peaceful lonely life on an island off the coast, Martin is surprised and dismayed to find that Nelly has made her way there ahead of him. When he tries to return her to the mainland she sabotages the boat, causing it to sink. Marooned upon the island, Martin is forced to adapt to his new neighbor, who is determined to stay.
The film recorded admissions of 2,373,738 in France.[3]
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