The woman next door

"Splended Image of Twisted Workings of Fate." - Variety

Gerard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star as former lovers who find themselves unintentionally reunited seven years later as neighbors in a small French village. Although the two are now married to different people, their ill-fated relationship rekindles, causing irrevocable damage to all parties. Rather than exploiting the obvious melodramatic clichés of small-town scandal, Truffaut focuses on the inner turmoil and longings of the former lovers, at an unusually profound emotional and psychological level.