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Entre Nous (dvd):

Amazon.com video review: Filmmaker Diane Kurys examines the bittersweet friendship of two women (Isabelle Huppert and Miou Miou) during post-World War II France in this semi-autobiographical account of her mother and father. The women struggle with their dreams and identities, compromising themselves with marriages that are not very satisfying. They long to own their own boutique, but domestic priorities always seem to cut short their aspirations and their friendship. They are only happy when they are together. However, the husbands struggle with their postwar identities as well, and compromise turns them into angry men. The children, meanwhile, are the quiet victims in all of this. It's a predictable yet moving film with much to offer. --Bill Desowitz

Entre Nous (English subtitles) (vhs):

Amazon.com video review: Diane Kurys's 1983 film Entre Nous is a heartfelt love story about two women in postwar Lyon, France. Lena and Madeleine (Miou-Miou and Isabelle Huppert) are two young women living with the results of the desperate choices they made in order to survive the war against Germany. In 1952, Lena has two girls with the man who rescued her from the Jewish encampment; an enlisted man whose surname was supposed to offer her peace and security. Madeleine's love was shot to death days after their wedding as German soldiers crossed the demarcation line and came into town to take Jewish citizens to the concentration camps. Ten years later, she is now married unhappily to Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri), a rogue who is forever trying to get rich on whatever scam he can concoct. The two young women meet at their children's school recital and become friends as each attempts to find fulfillment. As their friendship grows, they dream of opening a boutique together until their marriages, and subsequent financial security, deteriorate and the only comfort they can find is in each other's arms. Audiences may recognize Isabelle Huppert from Heaven's Gate and Madame Bovary and Kurys's work from A Man in Love. --Michele Goodson