Our Story (original title: Notre histoire, also known as Separate Rooms) is a 1984 French drama film starring Alain Delon and Nathalie Baye.
Our Story | |
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Notre histoire | |
Directed by | Bertrand Blier |
Written by | Bertrand Blier |
Produced by | Alain Sarde |
Starring | Alain Delon Nathalie Baye |
Cinematography | Jean Penzer |
Edited by | Claudine Merlin |
Music by | Bohuslav Martinů Laurent Rossi |
Distributed by | AMLF |
Release date | 23 May 1984 |
Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | $6.6 million[1] |
Alone in a first-class compartment of a train from Geneva to Paris, a man is reading a motor magazine and drinking beer. A woman enters, challenges him to make love, and afterwards gets out at the next stop. Following her, he takes her to a hotel for a further bout and afterwards hires a car to drive her to her empty home.
He is Robert Avranches, a well-off garage owner with a wife and two little children, and she is Donatienne Pouget, a 33-year-old divorcee whose two children have been removed because of her lifestyle. When he says he'd like to stay with her, she says she is going dancing and returns late at night with a carload of friends from the night club.
There follows a purgatory for Robert, obsessed with a woman who has slept with all the neighbours and now picks up men on trains for fun. Men try to dissuade him and women try to console him, while all he wants is Donatienne, who eventually avoids his attentions by disappearing. He sets off in search of her but is retrieved by his brother and friends from Paris, who take him back to his home. His wife, delighted to have him back, looks identical to Donatienne.
1985 César Awards (France) [2]
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