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1982.10-12
Lyon, France |
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1983.04.06
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1,631,269 in France |
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Coup de Foudre
(1983)
aka: Entre Nous
DIRECTOR: Diane Kurys
CAST: Miou-Miou; Guy Marchand; Jean-Pierre Bacri
SYNOPSIS
Lena
and Madeleine are two women, who lost their youth in the World War II, and who meet
each other at their children's school in Lyon in 1952. They feel an instant rappot.
As the women grow closer, each giving the other the strength they need. Lena's
husband becomes jealous of their relationship. Madeleine, who has become increasingly
less tolerant of her husband's chronic womanizing, finally leaves him and moves
to Paris, believing that lena will eventually join her here.
NOTE
One
of the films that Isabelle shows at her best. After 9 years,
Isabelle reunited
with Miou Miou, since 1973's "Les Valseuses",
in which Miou Miou, joined with Depardieu-Deware, initiated young Isabelle (still
a teenage then) the joys of liberty and sexual
pleasure. 9 years after Miou Miou "seduces" Isabelle again to leave
her husband. The film has had a great success in France and USA, generally in
most of the countries it was distributed. - FORUM
QUOTE
Diane Kurys
"Mlle
Kurys" by Dan Yakir
Film Comment,
July-August, 1983
Isabelle has a Slavic side, with bright eyes, that
look a bit Jewish, which corresponded to my image of the character. Miou has a
dark side to her, the Josépha rather than the Going
Places side, which fascinated me. But while Isabelle is an intellectual actress,
Miou is a "popular" one. They couldn't have switched roles, but they
share a certain sweetness and they certainly have chemistry together. I
was bothered by the weak, closed suffering Isabelle of The Lacemaker. It was time
for her to change and she was conscious of that and happy to accept the role.
Isabelle is a mimetic actress, and she imitated me a lot, since she was playing
my mother and imagined that I must resemble her. It was good for the film. It
was a work of observation rather than analysis. I'm not even sure she was doing
it consciously. And I didn't intervene - it's her kitchen and she may do what
she wants to get the right result.
Isabelle
Huppert
"Ma vie d'actrice"
by Thierry Klifa
Studio N°181, September
2002
I would have failed to do it. After "La Truite" by Josephy Losey,
I left very far. I had rested for three months on voyage. I didn't want to come
back. Diane Kurys was looking for me... In fact, she had already proposed the
film to me, but I hesitated, because I had to play a mother and I was afraid I was too young to
paly it, unable to assume myself on screen having two young daughters.
By the time, I only played those post-adolescents, I found the role of the married
woman didn't correspond to me. One overlooked the force of Diane's persuasion when she decided something, she was well right. It was the beginning of a friendship
which is still lasting. When I respond to this film, the first image occurs to
me, is Christine (Pascal). I remember this scene where, in the camp, at the beginning
of the film, she washed her hair and said: "La Galice, is in spain.
not La Galicie!"
Daniel
Toscan du Plantier
"
Bouleversifiant"
©Éditions
du Seuil, May 1992 ISBN 2-03-013690-2
Bertrand Tavernier calls me :
"Could you meet a young actress of the Ranaud-Barrault company who wants
to direct a film?" I met her like tons of others and let her speak about her desperate company. During weeks, I found her on
all the floors, with the same childish obstinacy who since long made us yield.
A million of entrées in Paris. A few months later, she asks me to finance
the project of her companion, Alexandre Arcady. I start again my speech; she has
the tears in eyes, irritate, and I yield: "For you, only for you! "A
few minutes afterwards, I receive a telegram sent from the post office on the
street: "Thank you". The film, Coup de Sirocco, is made, released: another
million of entrées. Thank you.
AWARD
- The film is nominated for Best Screenpaly,
Miou Miou not Isabelle was nominated for Best Actress, of Cesar Award 1984.
- Official
Competition at Toronto Film Festival 1983
TRIVIA
Isabelle almost rejected this role. By the time, having been no-stop working for many years, she desperately left France for Italy on a three-month voyage. She hesitated
to play a mother as too young ....while it's also the time (1982-83) for her to think
about changing her image...
REVIEW
Coup
de Foudre, Premiere, January, 1983 (in French)
Histoire
d'Elle, Premiere, March, 1983 (in French)
The Women, New Yorker, March 5, 1984
MLLE.
Kurys, Film Comment, July-August, 1984 |
