AND 'CANNES' BECAME EMOTIONAL!

Renowned French filmmaker Claude Lelouch with artists of his film 

'Les Plus Belles Années D'une Vie' ('The Best Years of A Life') 

at this '72nd Cannes Film Festival'.

Beautiful Anouk Aimee and Jean-Louis Trintignant young in 

Claude Lelouch's classic 'Un Homme Et Une Femme' (1966).

"Chabada bada..bada ba.."

When audience at this.. '72nd Cannes Film Festival' heard this famous love song from almost five decades old classic French Film 'Un Homme Et Une Femme'..in the presence of it's filmmaker and artists.. atmosphere became emotional!

Poster of Claude Lelouch's 'A Man and a Woman' (1966)

When I saw filmclip of that occasion here..I too became emotional because that is my most favourite romantic French film on which I wrote a lot!

Actually in that ceremony it's renowned French filmmaker Claude Lelouch unveiled the trailer of his latest film 'Les Plus Belles Années D'une Vie' ('The Best Years of A Life') It's like going down memory lane with artists who acted in that film 'Un Homme Et Une Femme' (A Man and a Woman'/1966) which that time won 'Palme d'Or' at 'Cannes Film Festival'! In this programme it's veteran actress Anouk Aimee & actor Jean-Louis Trintignant were present with other cast of new film!

Poster of Claude Lelouch's sequel film..

'A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later' (1986)

Film 'Un Homme Et Une Femme' was about a young widow and widower who meet by chance at their children's boarding school & whose budding relationship is complicated by the memories of their spouses! Lelouch himself nicely cinematographed it on the screenplay which he written with Pierre Uytterhoeven..And edited with Claude Barrois! Beautiful Anouk Aimee and Jean-Louis Trintignant played the romantic lead in it with Pierre Barouch. This film also won 'Oscar's 'Best Foreign Language Film' award!

Then, after two decades of that film..Claude Lelouch made a sequel of it..'A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later' (Un Homme et une Femme, 20 Ans Déjà) which was released in 1986!..So now we can say it's trilogy completed with this year releasing 'The Best Years of A Life'!

Jean-Louis Trintignant & Anouk Aimee now 
in Claude Lelouch's 'The Best Years of A Life'

I remember nice meeting with it's renowned filmmaker Claude Lelouch at 'International Film Festival of India' in 1997 at Trivandrum!!

[Bollywood's hit film 'Andaz' (with stars Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini & Shammi Kapoor) made by Ramesh Sippy in 1971..
had a similar plot! I mentioned this while interacting with Mr. Sippy in our 'IFFI' at 
Goa few years back!]

- Manoj Kulkarni
  ['Chitrasrushti']