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When we meet the two women 10 years later in Lyon, Madeline has remarried--this time to an unsuccessful actor and equally unsuccessful seller of dubious goods--Costa (Jean Pierre Bacri). In contrast to Madeline who has maintained her own artistic sphere, Lena has managed to turn her hurried marriage into a comfortable middle-class world of childcare with her husband Michel, a now-successful garage owner...
...1950s, the domestic world was the accepted, indeed expected, environment for women. Madeline and Lena function almost as a unit in helping each other to explore the world outside. Kury highlights the strength of the women's friendship by subtly contrasting it to the friendship that develops between Costa and Michel. While Michel and Costa vie for the attention of each others' wives on a joint family outing, Michel tells Madeline. "You only look at Lena, never at me." And while each husband tries to trick the other into phony business deals, Lena and Madeline remain loyal friends. Kury, however...
...Huppert), a Belgian Jew, emerged from an internment camp with her sad-sack husband Michel (Guy Marchand) and a handmade marital straitjacket. Madeleine (Miou Miou) saw her glamorous first husband die from enemy gunfire in the town square, then fell into a pleasureless marriage with a slimy hustler named Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri). By 1952, when most of Entre Nous takes place, each woman is eager to escape the emotional claustrophobia of cooking the meals, chaperoning the children, counterfeiting passion as Monsieur Wrong rolls toward her in bed. To the anger and chagrin of their husbands, Lena and Madeleine find...
...jealous brute who will beat his wife and try to demolish her store? Yes-and he will plead with Lena (in the film's most affecting scene) to help him reconstruct his fantasy of a happy marriage. Does Madeleine have every right to desert the sleazy Costa? Of course-but in doing so she follows her star, at least temporarily, right out of Lena's life...
...Costa Rica. El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras. Belize, Panama and even Nicaragua, if it agrees to internal reform...