The Five Day Lover (1961)
Directed by Philippe de Broca
Genres - Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Sex Comedy |
Run Time - 95 min. |
Countries - France |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
American actress Jean Seberg, stars as Claire, a wayward wife, in this routine sex comedy by director Philippe de Broca. Claire's husband is not especially exciting -- he is a button-down civil servant -- and so it is not unusual that she lapse into an affair with Antoine (Jean-Pierre Cassel). There is a serious problem with her choice of a lover, because Antoine happens to be the live-in, "significant other" of Claire's best friend Madeleine (Micheline Presle), a fashion designer. Claire's tangled love life gets worse when Antoine gives every indication he wants to marry her, get a job, and make himself legitimate for once.
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extramarital-affair, friendship, homemaker, love-triangle, lover, mother