La mujer de al lado

Truffaut does his best Sirk. A woman and her former flame find themselves neighbors in the French countryside, which complicates their marriages. It is all suitably overwrought, though perhaps not quite enough to make Douglas Sirk jealous.

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François Truffaut directed La mujer de al lado in 1981. See François Truffaut's full filmography, where to start with François Truffaut, or where to go after you've seen everything by François Truffaut.

La mujer de al lado was released in 1981 (FR original-language production), with a runtime of 106 minutes.