Vincent, François, Paul and the Others (1974)

Drama • 118 minutes •  7.7/10

Starring: Yves Montand Michel Piccoli Gérard Depardieu Serge Reggiani Umberto Orsini Stéphane Audran Antonella Lualdi Marie Dubois and others.

Director: Claude Sautet Screenplay: Claude Sautet Jean-Loup Dabadie Director of Photography: Jean Boffety Producer: Raymond Danon Roland Girard Editor: Jacqueline Thiédot Original Music Composer: Philippe Sarde

Released • October 23, 1974

Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone's favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul's friendship and in Vincent's health. A younger man, Jack, becomes attractive to Lucie, François's wife. Another young friend, the boxer Jean, who's like a son to Vincent…