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We Won't Grow Old Together (French: Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble) is a 1972 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat. Starring Marlène Jobert, Jean Yanne, and Macha Méril, the film is based on a novel of the same name by Pialat.
Sep 7, 1972 · We Won't Grow Old Together: Directed by Maurice Pialat. With Marlène Jobert, Jean Yanne, Christine Fabréga, Patricia Pierangeli. A husband and wife in a loveless marriage struggle to remain ignorant to their failed relationship.
Jean, a married 40-year-old filmmaker, and his young working class lover, Catherine, engage in a circular series of spectacular blow-ups and tentative reunions, their mutual desire a fire that burns them again and again.
A married man's (Jean Yanne) six-year affair with a much-younger mistress (Marlène Jobert) reaches its end.
Maurice Pialat’s second feature, We Won’t Grow Old Together, became an unlikely commercial success upon its release. Far from viewer-friendly, it tells the story of the endless breakups and makeups of a highly unstable yet apparently indissoluble couple.
Jean, a married 40-year-old failed director, and his lover, Catherine, engage in a circular series of spectacular blow-ups and tentative reunions—their mutual desire a fire that burns them again and again. Tired of his possessiveness and violent temperament, Catherine wants to break up.
Details. Jean (Jean Yanne), a fortyish filmmaker who's struggling to make a feature, is married to the smoothly bourgeois Françoise (Macha Méril) but, for six years, has been brazenly carrying on an affair with the much younger Catherine (Marlène Jobert).
