Les Choses de la Vie (1970)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 83 minuten
Alternative titles: The Things of Life / These Things Happen / L'Amante / De Dingen van het Leven
Country:
Switzerland / France / Italy
Directed by: Claude Sautet
Stars: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider and Gérard Lartigau
IMDb score:
7,4 (6.458)
Releasedate: 13 March 1970
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Les Choses de la Vie plot
A middle-aged entrepreneur is in a fatal car accident when he finally makes his choice between girlfriend and wife. In the last minutes before his death, his life passes before him...
Actors and actresses
Pierre Bérard
Hélène
Catherine Bérard
Bertrand Bérard
François
The Livestock Truck Driver
The Truck Driver
The Male Nurse
The Female Hitchhiker
The Male Hitchhiker
Reviews & comments
eRCee
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- 13463 messages
- 1986 votes
Both stylistically and substantively I have some ambivalent feelings about Les choses de la vie. The style itself is fine, but the flash-forwards feel a bit haphazard and are not used consistently throughout the film. In terms of content, the film has to rely on its casual, little plot-driven and therefore quite natural storytelling, but it lacks a bit of real depth. I felt that the film would have benefited from an extra half hour to flesh out the characters more. Although Sautet's hand is certainly visible, the level of Un coeur and hiver is therefore not reached if you ask me.
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Movsin
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- 8472 messages
- 8513 votes
Beautiful film. If the scene of the accident and what followed it is still engraved on my retina since I saw that film for the first time when it was released, I should also mention the wonderful, above all subtly simple and natural renditions of Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider and also by Lea Massari and Jean Bouise. The drivers, the doctor are also very well cast.... It seems that the filming of the accident took more than 10 days of film work.
In any case, full of ideas. Just think the victim's thinking aloud after the incident, the feast with 2 types of guests, the dying, the threatening music...
Film to watch over and over again.
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mjk87 (moderator films)
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- 15025 messages
- 4759 votes
Very nice film, right from the start with those dreamy slow-motion images. Interesting original set-up, great play by Piccolo (think of a picture of a Frenchman and you get him) and Schneider, nice human interaction, atmospheric, good pace, emotionally involved and captivating from start to finish. The film shows life as it is. At most towards the end there is still just too long, stop a little earlier and the film would have been perfect. Now 4.5*.
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