The Suburbs Are Everywhere (1973)
He is a sales rep. She is a secretary. They live in the suburbs but she works in Paris. They don't see much of each other and spend much of their time in commuter trains. They try desperately to change job locations to be more often together, but... The plot is not the important thing in the film ; what makes it emblematic of the early and mid-seventies is the insouciant atmosphere. The '74 oil crisis had not yet morphed into a recession, and life was good - even though it was as hard as ever to find a home near one's workplace (or the reverse) ! Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin are both excellent. The movie is not an all-time great, but it captures the "zeitgeist" of French life in the Seventies.
Director: Gérard Pirès
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Marthe Keller as Marlène Réval |
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Jacques Higelin as Bernard Réval |
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Nathalie Courval as Marie |
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Robert Castel as Marcel |
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Jean-Pierre Darras as Ducros |
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Victor Lanoux as Georges |
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Daniel Prévost as L'employé des réclamations de la SNCF |
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Jacques Legras as Le représentant |
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Annie Cordy as L'agent immobilier |
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Ginette Leclerc as Madame Blin |
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Claude Piéplu as Le directeur de l'usine |
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Alice Sapritch as L'automobiliste hargneuse |
| Directing | Gérard Pirès | Director |
