By Frank Miller
Entre Nous
Brief Synopsis
The passionate friendship between two women leads them to abandon their respective spouses and open a dress shop together.
Cast & Crew
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Diane Kurys
Director
Miou-miou
Isabelle Huppert
Guillaume Leguellec
Saga Blanchard
Jacqueline Doyen
Film Details
Also Known As
At First Sight, Between Us, Coup de Foudre
MPAA Rating
Genre
Drama
Foreign
Romance
Release Date
1983
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 50m
Synopsis
The passionate friendship between two women leads them to abandon their respective spouses and open a dress shop together.
Director
Diane Kurys
Director
Cast
Miou-miou
Isabelle Huppert
Guillaume Leguellec
Saga Blanchard
Jacqueline Doyen
Jacques Blal
Anne Fabien
Gerard Chambre
Pascal Pistaccio
Patrick Bauchau
Guy Marchand
Nils Tavernier
Jean-claude Degoros
Jacques Alric
Patricia Champagne
Denis Lavant
Sonia Pfirmann
Bernard Cazassus
Robin Renucci
Frantois Cluzet
Anne Levy
Serge Ruben
Jean-pierre Bacri
Dominique Lavanant
Christine Pascal
Crew
Frank R. Adams
Song
Frederic Astich-barre
Assistant Art Director
Luis Enriquez Bacalov
Music
Pierre-olivier Baudin
Production Assistant
Sidney Bechet
Song Performer
Sidney Bechet
Song
Fabienne Bichet
Production Assistant
Marc Blazarelli
Assistant Art Director
Mauricette Boisard
Production Assistant
Jean-pierre Bouillez
Production Assistant
Anne Bourdiol
Makeup
Jacques Bufnoir
Production Designer
W Byron
Titles
Denise Cassotti
Production Assistant
Genevieve Chateau
Production Assistant
Mic Cheminal
Costume Designer
Maurice Chevalier
Song Performer
Christian Choquart
Production Assistant
Lucille Christol
Production Assistant
Andre Clement
Camera Assistant
Olivier Cohen
Book As Source Material
Perry Como
Song Performer
Alix Comte
Sound
Michel Conche
Assistant Art Director
Gilbert Crozet
Sound
Dominique Duchatelle
Sound
Jacky Dufour
Sound Effects
Tony Egry
Assistant Art Director
Hubert Ennamare
Production Assistant
Jean-pierre Eychenne
Makeup
Fabienne Faudot-bel
Production Assistant
Maryse Faure
Makeup
Marie Fernandez
Production Assistant
Michel Frichet
Production Manager
Joe Garland
Song
Michel Grimaud
Assistant Art Director
Philippe Grunebaum
Assistant Art Director
Emmanuel Gust
Assistant Director
Michele Hollander
Assistant Editor
Will M Hough
Song
Joseph E. Howard
Song
Chantal Hymans
Assistant Editor
Diane Kurys
Screenplay
Diane Kurys
Book As Source Material
Diane Kurys
Writer (Adaptation)
Sabine Lancelin
Camera Assistant
Joel Lavau
Makeup
Alain Le Henry
Screenplay
Pascal Lebegue
Camera Assistant
Gerard Lecas
Sound
Ofer Lelouch
Production Assistant
Pierre Levy
Assistant Editor
Philippe Lievre
Production Assistant
Bernard Lutic
Director Of Photography
Gerard Manneveau
Sound Effects
Dominique Martin
Assistant Editor
Harald Maury
Sound
Jacques Michel
Makeup
Renee Miguel
Wardrobe
Glenn Miller
Song Performer
Harold Orlob
Song
Maggie Perlado
Camera Assistant
Pericles Prokopiadis
Production Assistant
Andy Razaf
Song
Guillaume Schiffman
Camera Assistant
Gerard Staub
Production Assistant
Claudine Taulere
Production Assistant
Pascal Toutain
Assistant Art Director
Marc Vade
Production Assistant
Pierre Vade
Makeup
Nicole Vaillant
Production Assistant
Joelle Van Effenterre
Editor
Anne-marie Veinstein
Wardrobe
Claude Villand
Sound
Alexander Whitelaw
Titles
Romain Winding
Camera Assistant
Ariel Zeitoun
Producer
Tadek Zietara
Production Assistant
Film Details
Also Known As
At First Sight, Between Us, Coup de Foudre
MPAA Rating
Genre
Drama
Foreign
Romance
Release Date
1983
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 50m
Award Nominations
Best Foreign Language Film
1983
Articles
Entre Nous -
French writer-director Diane Kurys turned the trauma of her parents' divorce into an affecting portrait of emotional events spinning out of control in her third directorial effort, Entre Nous. The tale follows two women searching for some relief from their stifling marriages of convenience. Isabelle Huppert stars as Lena, a Belgian Jew (based on Kurys' mother) who marries the man who helped her escape a concentration camp. After WWII, he sets up a successful auto repair shop, but their middle-class existence isn't totally satisfying. At her daughters' school Lena meets another frustrated woman, Madeleine (Miou-Miou), an artist and war widow who married an actor after he got her pregnant. The two bond instantly (the film's French title, Coup de Foudre, means "love at first sight"). Although their closeness is purely emotional, it eventually leads to the end of both marriages, with the children caught in the middle. Kurys called the film "a game of memory." To her, it was a chance to revisit her parents' divorce non-judgmentally and reunite the two, at least on screen. Her mother read the script without realizing it was about her, while her father was moved to tears when he saw the finished film. Kurys shot Entre Nous on the locations where her mother had lived, and she worked tirelessly to find the right props and costumes to recapture her sense of growing up in the early 1950s. The film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film and brought Kurys the National Academy of Cinema, France Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
By Frank Miller
By Frank Miller
Entre Nous -
French writer-director Diane Kurys turned the trauma of her parents' divorce into an affecting portrait of emotional events spinning out of control in her third directorial effort, Entre Nous. The tale follows two women searching for some relief from their stifling marriages of convenience. Isabelle Huppert stars as Lena, a Belgian Jew (based on Kurys' mother) who marries the man who helped her escape a concentration camp. After WWII, he sets up a successful auto repair shop, but their middle-class existence isn't totally satisfying. At her daughters' school Lena meets another frustrated woman, Madeleine (Miou-Miou), an artist and war widow who married an actor after he got her pregnant. The two bond instantly (the film's French title, Coup de Foudre, means "love at first sight"). Although their closeness is purely emotional, it eventually leads to the end of both marriages, with the children caught in the middle. Kurys called the film "a game of memory." To her, it was a chance to revisit her parents' divorce non-judgmentally and reunite the two, at least on screen. Her mother read the script without realizing it was about her, while her father was moved to tears when he saw the finished film. Kurys shot Entre Nous on the locations where her mother had lived, and she worked tirelessly to find the right props and costumes to recapture her sense of growing up in the early 1950s. The film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film and brought Kurys the National Academy of Cinema, France Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
By Frank Miller
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1983
Released in United States February 1984
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1983
Shown at New York Film Festival September-October 1983.
Broadcast in USA over Sundance Channel as part of program "She Said Cinema" May 1-31, 1999.
Third feature for filmmaker Diane Kurys, whose previous efforts include "Peppermint Soda" (France/1977) and "Cocktail Molotov" (France/1980).
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Released in United States 1983 (Shown at New York Film Festival September-October 1983.)
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1983
Released in United States February 1984 (Los Angeles)
