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The Woman Next Door

Gérard Depardieu (Actor), Fanny Ardant (Actor), François Truffaut (Director, Producer, Writer) Rated:
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Special Features

  • Vintage Truffaut Trailer Collection

Product Details

  • Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner, Roger Van Hool
  • Directors: François Truffaut
  • Writers: François Truffaut, Jean Aurel, Suzanne Schiffman
  • Producers: François Truffaut
  • Format: Color, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
  • Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
    R
    Restricted
  • Studio: Fox Lorber
  • DVD Release Date: September 7, 1999
  • Run Time: 106 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00000JLTK
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,248 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4.0 out of 5 starsThe making of a diva
By C. Court on July 13, 2002
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
Ardant and Depardieu look younger in this film, although age has not hurt Fanny Ardant, has made her even more beautiful (see 8 Femmes). This movie is about 20 years old so this was France at the time of Truffaut. This was the first movie of Fanny Ardant directed by Francois Truffaut. She is beautiful in this movie, in fact Truffaut eventually married her and they had a daughter.
Gerard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant are former lovers who are reunited unintentionally after several years, as neighbors in a small village (think small � none of Paris - with proverbial French dogs, yes, the canine variety, one is inside a restaurant with diners!) They are married to different people who both seem very nice, one would think the past is behind the two former lovers, but this is a Truffaut movie, it cannot be mundane or even predictable nor be a soap opera. While the movie will not push you on the edge of your seat, Truffaut is a master in exploiting the senses and emotions. The interactions of the former lovers gives you a glimpse of the nature of their past relationship. It was not an ordinary affair. Ardant and Depardieu rekindle their affair and the emotional roller coaster starts. There are deep psychological scars that now create new wounds with the rekindling of the relationship. The movie is sensuous, funny, lighthearted, disturbing then dark and sad. The end is very surprising.
The DVD features trailers from Truffaut's other films including 400 Blows and the Wild Child.
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5.0 out of 5 starsOne of Truffaut's Finest
By William Kersten on July 7, 2001
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
This is a film which epitomizes not only Francois Truffaut's recurrent themes - obsessive love, an ordinary man's cognizant self-destruction - but also his style of understatement, which, as a personal favorite of mine, is closer to the experience of real life than that of any other filmmaker. When one witnesses a supreme disaster, what does one notice? Not the kind of coverage of events such as many "hot" American directors today think is powerful - dozens of shots that show the same action over and over again in closeup, medium shot, full shot, tracking shot, crane shot, computer FX shot, you-name-it shot; but instead from the point of view of ONE person who is intimately involved - who may miss half of the action, yet agonizingly fills in what he missed with what he imagines. This is the genius of Truffaut, who represents this admirable Gallic trait perhaps as much as any other French artist of the twentieth century. The acting of the principals Ardant and Depardieu is perfection, and the story is one of relentless emotional buildup, leading to a shattering denoument.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe last Hitchcock `s farewell!
By Hiram Gòmez Pardo Venezuela HALL OF FAME on November 2, 2005
Format: DVD
Truffaut really looked outstanding with this somber psychological study of the human soul, its affections and reminiscences around the intend of reviving a past passionate love affair, when the casualty face them again. She is his neighbor but he is happily married, though she really does not care about it, because she is living her actual passion as if the time would have suspended. In this state of things this fact is not any obstacle to her.

A true gem of the French Cinema that has proved countless opportunities how handle with this issue. Depardieu and Ardant are both perfect: the final scene is simply unforgettable.

A true icon picture.
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5.0 out of 5 starsTruffaut Grabs Hold of Romantic & Sexual Obsession
By carol irvin TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on September 24, 2009
Format: DVD
Francois Truffaut was the real life lover of Fanny Ardant, right up to his premature death of a brain tumor. It is thus interesting that he used Ardant as the female half of this romantic and sexual obsession tale. The tale itself is simple. Depardieu and Ardant were once lovers. They married other people and while married to them, moved next door to one another inadvertently. They try and be suave and amiable about this, even having dinner at one another's houses. However, the spark ignites anew and the two rapidly become obsessed with one another both romantically and sexually. It is so bad that at one point she enters into a mental asylum as a result. Even that can't end their obsession though. There are people who cannot leave one another even though they are destroying one another. This film gets that down detail by detail, scene by scene. I've watched it many times and always am immediately pulled under its spell.
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5.0 out of 5 starsLovely danger...
By Andrew Ellington VINE VOICE on October 28, 2013
Format: DVD
Love stories are a dime a dozen. Love triangles are just as popular. Love affairs are maybe even MORE popular. So what makes `The Woman Next Door' so exceptional? The fact that it combines the three with an air of intrigue and danger, that's what. In fact, from start to finish, the film builds such raw, unbridled emotion, and it never rests on its laurels. It never gives up or reins it in but it continually unravels layers and layers until we see something completely stripped and wholly organic.

And that final scene.

The film tells the story of Bernard Coudray, a happily married man who has his world thrown into disarray when his ex-girlfriend and her new husband move in next door. His wife is unaware of who this woman is and so she continues to try and embrace their new neighbors despite Bernard's unease about them. In the meantime, Bernard and his old flame, Mathilde, rekindle their relationship and start a heated affair that slowly drives them both mad, in seemingly different ways. Their secret threatens exposure and their relationship starts to rear and ugly head (that was presumably the reason it ended in the first place) before a crushing finale I didn't see coming.

Depardieu anchors the film fairly well, but it is Fanny Ardant who really devours this movie whole. Her slow burn as Mathilde is fascinating to watch. She delivers an astonishing portrayal of a woman hanging onto a memory she wants to ignore but ultimately cannot.

If you want something different, I highly recommend you check out this lavishly directed romantic thriller.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsHighly recommend it. Depardieu at his best

This is movie is a classic. Highly recommend it. Depardieu at his best.

Published 13 days ago by Amazon Customer
3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

sad old film

Published 8 months ago by Vittorini Demetrio
5.0 out of 5 starsan oldie, but a goodie. Saw it once ...

an oldie, but a goodie. Saw it once years ago and the ending was quite impactful. Bought it for the movie collection. It's not an ation packed drama but that's ok.

Published 12 months ago by RockIt Records
4.0 out of 5 starsafraid to open sounds like the disc is loose

afraid to open sounds like the disc is loose. i hope it is in good condition. i have seen this in VCR format.

Published 20 months ago by jmg
5.0 out of 5 starsThe Woman Next Door

"Woman" pairs Ardant with the ever-charismatic Depardieu in this tangled tale of love. Truffaut makes an oddly familiar premise fresh via his own intelligent, insightful script and... Read more

Published on July 10, 2007 by John Farr
5.0 out of 5 starsUnforgettable

Ardant is irrestible and mesmerizing and Depardieu with that wit and charm. The merging of two enormous talents, one complementing the other and vice versa, is a rare instance... Read more

Published on June 26, 2007 by E. Nanol
2.0 out of 5 starsNot one of Truffaut's best

If the movie was not directed by Francois Truffaut, who would say it's a masterpiece? To me, this movie is far less attractive than Jules et Jim and 400 Blows. Read more

Published on March 3, 2004 by N. Wong
5.0 out of 5 starsAll You Need is

Depardieu and Ardant are paired in this movie, and not for the last time, and produce a grotesque story of obsession between former and now reunited lovers. Read more

Published on July 31, 2001 by unraveler

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