Entre Nous (film)

Entre Nous tells the story of two young married women in the 1950s who don't recognise how unfulfilled they have been in their marriages until they meet each other. In the preliminary scenes, set in 1942, Lena (Isabelle Huppert), a pretty 18-year-old, has been arrested and brought to an internment camp for Jews in the Pyrenees. One of the guards, Michel (Guy Marchand), writes her a note warning her she may be deported to a German Nazi camp, and offers her marriage as a means of escape. She accepts. During the marriage ceremony she discovers that he too is Jewish; she's dismayed to learn that she won't have the protection of a gentile name.

But she has no choice and they hasten to the Italian border. By 1952, the hardworking Michel has got himself his own garage in Lyon, and they have two young daughters. Lena meets Madeleine (Miou-Miou), at a school pageant. Madeleine, who comes from a moderately wealthy family, was an art student in 1942, and had married a fellow student who was killed in a street skirmish between the students and the collaborationist police. A widow at 19, Madeleine drifted into marriage with an actor/black marketeer, Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri), and now has a son. The two women meet at a pageant put on by the school their children attend and slowly become inseparable friends, developing an intimacy that Lena's husband later accuses as lesbianism.

Lena and Michel's marriage is fracturing, although there are moments of happiness with their two daughters, and the film follows Lena's ups and downs as she struggles over whether to leave her husband. At the end of the film, she and Madeleine (who left her own husband sometime earlier, had trouble holding down a job, and went through a nervous breakdown), plan to open a dress shop in Paris.[1]

• Miou-Miou as Madeleine
• Isabelle Huppert as Lena Weber
• Guy Marchand as Michel Korski
• Jean-Pierre Bacri as Costa Segara
• Robin Renucci as Raymond
• Patrick Bauchau as Carlier
• Jacques Alric as Mr. Vernier
• Jacqueline Doyen as Mme Vernier
• Saga Blanchard as Sophie
• Guillaume Le Guellec as René
• Christine Pascal as Sarah
• Corinne Anxionnaz as 'unnamed'
• Jacques Blal as Lionel Feldman
• Bernard Cazassus as Le chef de gare
• Gérard Chambre as Flirt

• Isabelle Huppert on screen and stage
• List of submissions to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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