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The Woman Next Door

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The Woman Next Door
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R,1hr 46min
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January 1, 1981
Distributor:
Fox Lorber
Synopsis: François Truffaut's The Woman Next Door continues his fascination with obsessive love. It was also his first collaboration with Fanny Ardant, who would become his favored leading lady for the last phase of his career and offscreen love for the last years of his life. Bernard Coudray (Gerard Deparidieu) is a happily married man living in the village of Grenoble; his life is knocked askew when Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard move in next door, and Mathilde (Ardant) proves to be Bernard's long-ago lover. ... Full Synopsis
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The Woman Next Door is a key film in the final phase of François Truffaut's career. His second film with Gerard Depardieu (a more muscular screen presence than Jean-Pierre Leaud) and the first of two Truffaut films with Fanny Ardant, The Woman Next Door has a story line right out of a soap opera. Fortunately, it plays like variations of a half-dozen other intelligent Truffaut films on the vagaries ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Bernard Coudray
Mathilde Bauchard
Philippe Bauchard
Arlette Coudray
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