It Only Happens to Others
The motion picture that must end...to begin.
Catherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-old baby, they face a slow but definite self-destruction.
Production
Production
Cast
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello
Serge Marquand
Le frère de Catherine
Danièle Lebrun
Sophie
Dominique Labourier
Marguerite
Catherine Allégret
La mère dans le parc
Benoît Ferreux
La petite fille
Andrée Damant
L'infirmière
Charles Gérard
Un collègue de Marcello (uncredited)
Claude Pinoteau
Un collègue de Marcello (uncredited)
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Reviews
Parker
"yesterday, we were good. we lived a normal life without even realizing it."
exhausting. the score is anxious and unrelenting. the set design is meticulous, subtley shifting from the messiness of parenthood to the disastrous yet barren mess of depression. the choppy editing shows just how quickly things can change. how quickly you remember that everything isn't as it once was, and the joy you once held fades into nothing. that scene with catherine deneuve screaming and crying in the hospital while marcello mastroianni just falls to the ground will be burned into my mind forever.
"so what can you do?"
"live for her. breathe for her. laugh for her. one must live. one must live."
You've reached the end.