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''Entre nous'' ("Between Us"; also known as ''Coup de foudre'' "Love at First Sight") is a 1983 French film directed by Diane Kurys, starring Creator/IsabelleHuppert, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand and Jean-Pierre Bacri.

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''Entre nous'' ("Between Us"; also known as ''Coup de foudre'' "Love at First Sight") is a 1983 French film directed by Diane Kurys, starring Creator/IsabelleHuppert, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand Creator/GuyMarchand and Jean-Pierre Bacri.



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* LousyLoversAreLosers: Lena's husband Michel is a boorish man who never once gave her an orgasm while she was with him, and thus is seen as a SympatheticAdulterer when she has an affair and leaves him.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Madeleine is married with Costa, but she has sex with her art teacher. Lena is married with Michel, but she makes out with a soldier in the train. Moreover, Madeleine and Lena [[HideYourLesbians are strongly implied]] to have a relationship that goes beyond friendship. Michel also tries to pick up Madeleine.

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* TheForties: The prologue is set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* TheFifties: The bulk of the movie is set in the 1950's.

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* TheForties: The prologue is set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* TheFifties: The bulk of the movie is set in the 1950's.
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''Entre nous'' ("Between Us"; also known as ''Coup de foudre'' "Love at First Sight") is a 1983 French film directed by Diane Kurys, starring Creator/IsabelleHuppert, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand, and Jean-Pierre Bacri.

Lena (Huppert), a Jewish woman, marries Michel (Marchand) during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, to avoid being deported to Germany. At the same time, Madeleine (Miou-Miou) marries Raymond, a member of the Resistance. Shortly after the wedding, Raymond is killed in a skirmish with the Germans. After a couple of years of widowhood, Madeleine marries Costa (Bacri). In 1952, Lena and Madeleine both live in Lyon. They meet and they become friends.

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''Entre nous'' ("Between Us"; also known as ''Coup de foudre'' "Love at First Sight") is a 1983 French film directed by Diane Kurys, starring Creator/IsabelleHuppert, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand, Marchand and Jean-Pierre Bacri.

Lena (Huppert), a Jewish woman, marries Michel (Marchand) during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, to avoid being deported to Germany. At the same time, Madeleine (Miou-Miou) marries Raymond, a member of the Resistance. Shortly after the wedding, Raymond is killed in a skirmish with the Germans. After a couple of years of widowhood, Madeleine marries Costa (Bacri). In 1952, Lena and Madeleine both live in Lyon. They meet and they become friends.
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Lena (Huppert), a Jewish woman, marries Michel (Marchand) during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, to avoid being deported to Germany. At the same time, Madeleine (Miou-Miou) marries Raymond, a member of the Resistance. Shortly after the wedding, Raymond is killed in a skirmish with the Germans. After a couple of years of widowhood, Madeleine marries Costa (Bacri). Ten years later, Lena and Madeleine both live in Lyon. They meet and they become friends.

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Lena (Huppert), a Jewish woman, marries Michel (Marchand) during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, to avoid being deported to Germany. At the same time, Madeleine (Miou-Miou) marries Raymond, a member of the Resistance. Shortly after the wedding, Raymond is killed in a skirmish with the Germans. After a couple of years of widowhood, Madeleine marries Costa (Bacri). Ten years later, In 1952, Lena and Madeleine both live in Lyon. They meet and they become friends.
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Lena (Huppert), a Jewish woman, marries Michel (Marchand) during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, to avoid being deported to Germany. At the same time, Madeleine's husband, a member of the Resistance, is killed in a skirmish with the Germans. After a couple of years of widowhood, Madeleine marries Costa (Bacri). Lena and Madeleine meet after the war and they become friends.

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Lena (Huppert), a Jewish woman, marries Michel (Marchand) during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, to avoid being deported to Germany. At the same time, Madeleine's husband, Madeleine (Miou-Miou) marries Raymond, a member of the Resistance, Resistance. Shortly after the wedding, Raymond is killed in a skirmish with the Germans. After a couple of years of widowhood, Madeleine marries Costa (Bacri). Ten years later, Lena and Madeleine both live in Lyon. They meet after the war and they become friends.
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Lena, a Jewish woman, marries Michel during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, to avoid being deported to Germany. Madeleine's husband is killed during the war. After a couple of years, she marries Costa. Lena and Madeleine meet after the war and they become friends.

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Lena, Lena (Huppert), a Jewish woman, marries Michel (Marchand) during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, to avoid being deported to Germany. At the same time, Madeleine's husband husband, a member of the Resistance, is killed during in a skirmish with the war. Germans. After a couple of years, she years of widowhood, Madeleine marries Costa.Costa (Bacri). Lena and Madeleine meet after the war and they become friends.
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* ForcefulKiss: After catching Madeleine having sex with her art teacher in his bedroom, Michel, who had tried to pick her up previously, forces Madeleine to kiss him.


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* InterruptedIntimacy: Michel interrupts Madeleine while she is having sex with her art teacher in Michel and Lena's bedroom.


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* PoolScene: Lena and Madeleine go together to the swimming pool. There is some {{Fanservice}} in this scene: Lena is topless when she chats with Madeleine in the changing-room.
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* VomitDiscretionShot: Madeleine and Costa's son gets sick in the car, so Costa has to stop and the boy vomits, but this is only showed in the distance, from Lena and Michel's car which drives away.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: Lena and Madeleine's affairs (with a soldier, with an art teacher, and with each other) are justified: they get bored, Lena's husband is domineering and sometimes violent, he tries to pick up Madeleine, he is bad at sex (Lena has her first orgasm with a soldier in a train), Lena's marriage was a CitizenshipMarriage, Madeleine's husband is a incompetent crook.

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* SympatheticAdulterer: Lena and Madeleine's affairs (with a soldier, with an art teacher, and with each other) are justified: they get bored, Lena's husband is domineering and sometimes violent, he tries to pick up Madeleine, he is bad at sex (Lena has her first orgasm with a soldier in a train), Lena's marriage was a CitizenshipMarriage, Madeleine's husband is a an incompetent crook.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: Lena and Madeleine's affairs (with a soldier, with an art teacher, and with each other) are justified: they get bored, Lena's husband is domineering and sometimes violent, he tries to pick up Madeleine, he is bad at sex (Lena has her first orgasm with a soldier in a train), Lena's marriage was a CitizenshipMarriage, Madeleine's is a incompetent crook.

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* SympatheticAdulterer: Lena and Madeleine's affairs (with a soldier, with an art teacher, and with each other) are justified: they get bored, Lena's husband is domineering and sometimes violent, he tries to pick up Madeleine, he is bad at sex (Lena has her first orgasm with a soldier in a train), Lena's marriage was a CitizenshipMarriage, Madeleine's husband is a incompetent crook.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: Lena and Madeleine's affairs (with a soldier, with an art teacher, and with each other) are justified: they get bored, Lena's husband is domineering and sometimes violent, he tries to pick up Madeleine, he is bad at sex (Lena has her first orgasm with a soldier in a train), Lena's marriage was a CitizenshipMarriage, Madeleine's is a incompetent crook.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Raymons hugs and kisses Madeleine when he is shot in the back and dies.

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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Raymons Raymond hugs and kisses Madeleine when he is shot in the back and dies.
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* LoveDodecahedron: Lena is married with Michel. She is [[HideYourLesbians strongly implied]] to have a relationship with Madeleine. She also makes out with a soldier in the train. Michel tries to pick up Madeleine. Madeleine is married with Costa. She has sex with his art teacher.

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* LoveDodecahedron: Lena is married with Michel. She is [[HideYourLesbians strongly implied]] to have a relationship with Madeleine. She also makes out with a soldier in the train. Michel tries to pick up Madeleine. Madeleine is married with Costa. She has sex with his her art teacher.
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* MenAreUncultured: Lena complains that Michel, her husband, is only interested in football and politics and that he is ignorant in other fields.
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* CitizenshipMarriage: Lena, who is a Jewish foreigner, marries Michel, because he is a French soldier and he is allowed to take his wife out of the detention centre.


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* SmallTownBoredom: Lena and Madeleine get bored in Lyon. Madeleine finally breaks up with her husband and goes to Paris. In the end, Lena and Madeleine settle down together in Paris.
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* DistantPrologue: The prologue is set in 1942, 10 years before the bulk of the film.


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* LittleBlackDress: Madeleine lends such a dress to Lena, but Michel does not want Lena to wear it.


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* LaResistance: Madeleine's first husband, Raymond, and her art teacher are members of the Resistance.


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* ShowWithinAShow:
** The SchoolPlay.
** Costa's one-man-show, where he is dressed as a waiter.
** In the end, Michel is looking for Costa and he arrives backstage at a theatre where Costa plays Creator/VictorHugo's ''Ruy Blas''.
* SlutShaming: Michel does not want Lena to wear a black revealing dress. He tells her that she looks like a whore.
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* TheLostLenore: Madeleine's first husband, Raymond, dies in the prologue. Years later, after she married another man, she still carries Raymond's photograph in her wallet.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Raymons hugs and kisses Madeleine when he is shot in the back and dies.


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* LastKiss: Raymond hugs and kisses Madeleine when he is shot in the back and dies.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Both Lena and Madeleine express interest in men. After her marriage, Lena asks Michel to come into her bed. She also lets a soldier make out with her in the train. Madeleine is really in love with Raymond, her first husband.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: Both Lena and Madeleine express interest in men. After her marriage, Lena asks Michel to come into her bed. She also lets a soldier make out with her in the train. Madeleine is really in love with Raymond, her first husband. At the same time, they are [[HideYourLesbians strongly implied]] to have a lesbian relationship.



* LoveDodecahedron: Lena is married with Michel. She is [[HideYourLesbians strongly implied]] to have interest in Madeleine. She also makes out with a soldier in the train. Michel tries to pick up Madeleine. Madeleine is married with Costa. She has sex with his art teacher.

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* LoveDodecahedron: Lena is married with Michel. She is [[HideYourLesbians strongly implied]] to have interest in a relationship with Madeleine. She also makes out with a soldier in the train. Michel tries to pick up Madeleine. Madeleine is married with Costa. She has sex with his art teacher.

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Lena, a Jewish woman, marries Michel during World War II, to avoid being deported to Germany. Madeleine's husband is killed during the war. After a couple of years, she marries Costa. Lena and Madeleine meet after the war and they become friends.

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Lena, a Jewish woman, marries Michel during World War II, UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, to avoid being deported to Germany. Madeleine's husband is killed during the war. After a couple of years, she marries Costa. Lena and Madeleine meet after the war and they become friends.


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* TheForties: The prologue is set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* TheFifties: The bulk of the movie is set in the 1950's.


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* {{Housewife}}: Lena and Madeleine are housewives, but they aspire to something else. They would like to open a clothing store.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Madeleine is married with Costa, but she has sex with her art teacher. Lena is married with Michel, but she makes out with a soldier in the train. Moreover, Madeleine and Lena [[HideYourLesbians are strongly implied]] to have a relationship that goes beyond friendship. Michel also tries to pick up Madeleine.
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''Entre nous'' ("Between Us"; also known as ''Coup de foudre'' "Love at First Sight") is a 1983 French film directed by Diane Kurys, starring Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand, and Jean-Pierre Bacri.

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''Entre nous'' ("Between Us"; also known as ''Coup de foudre'' "Love at First Sight") is a 1983 French film directed by Diane Kurys, starring Isabelle Huppert, Creator/IsabelleHuppert, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand, and Jean-Pierre Bacri.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Both Lena and Madeleine express interest in men. After her marriage, Lena asks Michel to come into her bed. She also lets a soldier make out with her in the train. Madeleine is really in love with Raymond, her first husband.
* BasedOnATrueStory: The story is based on the life of the parents of Diane Kurys, the director.
* EiffelTowerEffect: The Eiffel Tower can be seen through the window during the fashion show.
* HideYourLesbians: Lena and Madeleine are very close friend. In the end, they both break up with their respective husband to live together. They also sleep in the same bed in a hotel in Paris. Michel accuses his wife of being a lesbian. However, there is no explicit love confession or love scene.
* LoveDodecahedron: Lena is married with Michel. She is [[HideYourLesbians strongly implied]] to have interest in Madeleine. She also makes out with a soldier in the train. Michel tries to pick up Madeleine. Madeleine is married with Costa. She has sex with his art teacher.
* RunForTheBorder: Lena and Michel have to run for the Italian border when the Germans cross the Demarcation line, because they are Jewish.
* SchoolPlay: Lena and Madeleine meet during a school play. Madeleine's son is disguised as an Indian. One of Lena's daughters imitates Creator/MauriceChevalier.


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* StarvingArtist: Madeleine is a visual artist, but she cannot live on this activity. Costa is an actor, but resorts to shady business to make a living.
* WartimeWedding:
** Lena has less than one minute to decide if she wants to marry Michel or not to get out of a detention centre. They marry in the detention camp.
** During Madeleine and Raymond's wedding ceremony, someone announces that the Germans have just crossed the Demarcation line.
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''Entre nous'' ("Between Us"; also known as ''Coup de foudre'' "Love at First Sight") is a 1983 French film directed by Diane Kurys, starring Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand, and Jean-Pierre Bacri.

Lena, a Jewish woman, marries Michel during World War II, to avoid being deported to Germany. Madeleine's husband is killed during the war. After a couple of years, she marries Costa. Lena and Madeleine meet after the war and they become friends.

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* {{Shoutout}}:
** Lena reads ''Les Thibault'' by Roger Martin du Gard.
** Costa plays Creator/VictorHugo's ''Ruy Blas''.
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