Mariage (1974)

Posted By : galmuchet | Date : 21 Dec 2011 12:11:36 | Comments : 1 |

Avec Bulle Ogier, Rufus, Marie Déa ...

De 1944 à 1974, l'évolution d'un couple établi en Normandie. Tandis que le mari grimpe les échelon de la hirérachie sociale, les relations sentimentales avec sa femme se dégradent lentement. Mais, par la force des petits rituels du quotidien, la vie commune continue. Et débouche, au final, sur une redécouverte de l'autre...

(Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage, in this tragicomic French film by director Claude Lelouch, best known to U.S. filmgoers for his Oscar-winning film A Man and A Woman. Henri (Rufus) and Janne (Bulle Ogier) are first seen on their wedding night as they hesitantly enter their new country house which faces a concrete bunker. They would really have preferred something in the city, but this is what they can afford. A resistance group overruns the house in order to take out the Germans in the bunker, and as a result of this raid Henri becomes forever associated with the resistance. On their wedding anniversary 10 years later (also the anniversary of the raid), he is regarded as a hero, though not by Janne; she boycotts the dedication of a plaque commemorating the destruction of the bunker. Ten years later, the couple is locked in serious marital combat...)