The Best Years of a Life
With a thoughtful, ruminative script by Claude Lelouch and Valérie Perrin, this sequel to Lelouch’s classic 1966 Palme d’Or–winner A Man and a Woman weaves a career-spanning tapestry for Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée, reprising their roles.
Update: Claude Lelouch is no longer able to attend in person on March 7, but we’re delighted to share that he has recorded an introduction exclusively for Rendez-Vous with French Cinema audiences. See more details here.
In this stirring sequel to Claude Lelouch’s classic 1966 Palme d’Or–winner A Man and a Woman, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée reprise their roles. Jean-Louis (Trintignant) now struggles with dementia in a nursing home, unable to recall his glory days as a racecar driver; his former lover Anne (Aimée) has retired from producing films to maintain a fabric shop in sleepy Normandy. But then Jean-Louis’s son (Antoine Sire) seeks out Anne to remind his now prickly and standoffish father of the affair that once brought him so much joy. With a thoughtful, ruminative script by Lelouch and Valérie Perrin, The Best Years of a Life weaves a career-spanning tapestry for Trintignant, Aimée, and Lelouch, and traces the indelible arc of life as it’s lived.
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