Love, etc. (1996)
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Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Charles Berling, Thibault de Montalembert, Élodie Navarre, Marie-Christine Adam
A longtime friendship is unsettled when one friend falls in love with the other's new wife.
The story
Benoît, a hardworking and discreet bank employee with money, has long been friends with Pierre, a cultured literature professor who enjoys showing off and often borrows from him. Benoît marries Marie, whom he met through a personal ad. On their wedding day, Pierre falls in love with Marie. She is initially less immune to his charm than she wants to admit, while Pierre’s attraction begins to become an obsession. Their friendship and marriage are placed under strain as the three become entangled in a love triangle.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Benoît and Pierre have been friends for a long time. Benoît, a hardworking and discreet man, works at a bank and has money. Pierre, a cultured literature professor who enjoys showing off, often borrows money from him. On the day Benoît marries Marie, whom he met through a personal ad, Pierre falls in love with Marie. At first, she is less immune to Pierre’s charm than she wants to admit, while his attraction to her also turns into an obsession. The film tells the story of this triangle of friendship and love, in which each of the protagonists can, from a certain point of view, be considered a disruptive outside element.
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