Retour à la bien-aimée (1979)
Directed by Jean-François Adam

Drama / Romance
aka: Return to the Beloved

Film Synopsis

Julien has been divorced for five years but he still cannot forget his ex-wife Jeanne, who has since remarried.  Determined to win back his wife, Julien conceives a cunning plan.  He hires a young man to follow Jeanne and then kills him in the grounds of her house.  He then arranges matters so that there can be no doubt that the young man was murdered by Jeanne's husband.  When her husband is arrested, Jeanne begs Julien to come and stay with her for a while.  The plan appears to have worked...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Jean-François Adam
  • Script: Jean-François Adam, Jean-Claude Carrière, Benoît Jacquot, Georges Perec
  • Cinematographer: Pierre Lhomme
  • Music: Antoine Duhamel
  • Cast: Isabelle Huppert (Jeanne Kern), Jacques Dutronc (Julien), Bruno Ganz (Dr. Stephan Kern), Christian Rist (Detective Keller), Jean-François Adam (L'inspecteur de police Corbin), Aline Bertrand (Elise), Rodolphe Schacher (Thomas), Axelle Bernard (Isabelle), Irina Grjebina (Le professeur de danse)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 98 min
  • Aka: Return to the Beloved

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