Quelques Jours Avec Moi (1988)
Directed by Claude Sautet
Genres - Romance |
Sub-Genres - Romantic Drama |
Release Date - Apr 14, 1989 (USA) |
Run Time - 123 min. |
Countries - France |
MPAA Rating - PG13
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Claude Sautet's A Few Days With Me (Quelque Jours avec Moi) stars Daniel Auteuil as the emotionally disturbed heir to a supermarket empire. Auteuil's mother Danielle Darrieux tries to give her son some purpose in life by assigning him the task of reinvigorating one of the supermarket chain's least profitable links. Every effort Auteuil makes to reach out and communicate with his employees is doomed to failure due to his conscious and unconscious insensitivities. He is humanized by a brief affair with maid Sandrine Bonnaire. The romance doesn't last, and Auteuil ends up back in a mental institution, but still there is a ray of hope for him in the final scenes.
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heir, insensitivity, love-affair, maid, mother, mental-institution, supermarket