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Deux (1989)

113 min · romance film

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Directors

Claude Zidi

Cast

Gérard Depardieu, Maruschka Detmers, Philippe Leroy, Beata Tyszkiewicz, François Cluzet, Michelle Goddet, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Wojciech Pszoniak, Madeleine Cheminat

A composer’s new romance becomes complicated as he struggles to decide what he wants.

The story

Marc Lambert, a forty-year-old bachelor who organizes concerts and composes contemporary music, wants to buy a house where he once stayed while it was occupied by his mentor, Charles Staedler, and Charles’s wife, Suzanne. Hélène Muller, a real-estate agent in her thirties who specializes in high-end properties, shows him around the apartment. They fall in love at first sight and begin a passionate affair. But Marc is an unreformed Don Juan and does not know exactly what he wants, making their relationship complicated.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Marc Lambert, a forty-year-old bachelor, concert organizer and contemporary-music composer, wants to buy a house where he once stayed, when it was occupied by his mentor, Charles Staedler, and his wife, Suzanne, who may at one point have been his mistress. Hélène Muller, in her thirties and the director of a real-estate agency specializing in high-end properties, shows him around the apartment. The two fall in love at first sight, and a passionate affair follows. But Marc, an unreformed Don Juan, does not know exactly what he wants, and their relationship becomes complicated. They therefore decide to break up over a farewell dinner, during which Hélène will tell Marc everything that is on her mind. But when Marc goes to the restaurant’s cloakroom, an explosion goes off...

Genres

romance film

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