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...film opens as Lena (Isabelle Huppert), a Belgian Jew and character based on Kury's mother, enters a detention camp during WWII. She is allowed to leave by agreeing to marry Michel, also a Jew (Guy Machard). Together they escape to Italy. At the same time in German occupied France, Madeline (Miou-Miou) weds a fellow art student who soon after is murdered by the Nazis...
...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...
...first to fall is Guglielmo (Michel Vitold). A repressed homosexual (and, more significantly, a repressed romantic), he cannot hold his true nature back when Edo, as he renames their prodigy, appears. What drives him mad is not open acknowledgment of his secret, but the boy's indifference to it. What's all the fuss, Edo sleepily wonders, about the central issue of his would-be mentor's life. The next to go is Diego (Omero Antonutti). Encouraged by youth's unconscious example, he vainly seeks to reclaim the woman he loved and abandoned when...
...personal as well as international relations, wartime France created odd alliances and fierce resistance. Lena (Isabelle 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...
Kurys' achievement is to be both critical and understanding about both periods and all four people. Is Lena a brave enough revolutionary to open her own boutique? Then she will be stern enough to parade her indifference before Michel...