(Happy New Year)
A feature film starring
Lino Ventura
Francoise Fabian
With this nostalgic and bitter look at contemporary relationships, Lelouch marks the passage of time since 1966 when he made the simple and sentimental love story of A Man and a Woman.
It is the last day of 1973. A Man end a Woman is being shown in a prison as a holiday treat. After the film, three men are paroled. As one of them, Simon, tries to pick up the threads of his life, he thinks back to 1966: the year he planned an audacious jewel robbery - and fell in love.
Guest appearance by MIREILLE MATHIEU playing herself
Claude Lelouch returns to top form with this witty. sophisticated divertissement which is a judicious mix of caper and love story. (FILMS ILLUSTRATED) It involves a robbery which for ingenuity and excitement can be mentioned in the same breath as the famous speechless caper of Dassin's Riflfl.
(FILMS AND FILMING)
Written, produced, photographed and directed by CLAUDE LELOUCH
(A French film with English sub-titles) (First showing on British television) Films: page 15