It Only Happens to Others (1971)

★ 5.0 1h 30m IMDb
Drama

Catherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-old baby, they face a slow but definite self-destruction.

It Only Happens to Others

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Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve as Catherine Age 82 · Paris, France Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve, is a French actress as well as an occasional singer, model, and producer, considered one of the greatest E...
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello Died 1996 · Fontana Liri, Latium, Italy Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italian film actor. His honours have included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards..
Serge Marquand
Serge Marquand as Le frère de Catherine Died 2004 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France Serge Marquand was a French actor and film producer (12 March 1930 – 4 September 2004). He died of advanced leukemia. He was the brother of Nadine Trintignant and Christian Marquand. Source: Article...
Danièle Lebrun
Danièle Lebrun as Sophie Age 88 · Le Cheylard, Ardèche, France
Dominique Labourier
Dominique Labourier as Marguerite Age 82 · Reims, Marne, France Dominique Labourier (born 29 April 1943) is a French actress. Born in Reims, France, she is best known outside France for starring as Julie in Jacques Rivette's film Celine and Julie Go Boating (Célin...
Catherine Allégret
Catherine Allégret as La mère dans le parc Age 80 · Paris, France Catherine Allégret (born 16 April 1946) is a French actress. She is the daughter of Simone Signoret and Yves Allégret. In 2007, she portrayed Édith Piaf's grandmother Louise Gassion in Olivier Dahan'...
Director Nadine Trintignant
Cast Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Serge Marquand, Danièle Lebrun, Dominique Labourier, Catherine Allégret, Marc Eyraud, Rosa Chiara Magrini, Benoît Ferreux, Marie Trintignant

Audience Reviews

Parker 8/10 Dec 20, 2024
"yesterday, we were good. we lived a normal life without even realizing it."

exhausting. the score is anxious and unrelenting. the set design is meticulous, subtley shifting from the messiness of parenthood to the disastrous yet barren mess of depression. the choppy editing shows just how quickly things can change. how quickly you remember that everything isn't as it once was, and the joy you once held fades into nothing. that scene with catherine deneuve screaming and crying in the hospital while marcello mastroianni just falls to the ground will be burned into my mind forever.

"so what can you do?"
"live for her. breathe for her. laugh for her. one must live. one must live."

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