Love in the Afternoon (1972)

7.3/10 97 min Drama Romance

Overview

Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.

Cast

Bernard Verley

Frédéric

Zouzou

Chloé

Françoise Verley

Hélène

Daniel Ceccaldi

Gérard

Jean-Louis Livi

The Colleague

Frédérique Hender

Mme. M.

Claude-Jean Philippe

Mr. M.

Silvia Bădescu

The Female Student

Claude Bertrand

The Male Student

Sylvaine Charlet

The Landlady

Suze Randall

The Au Pair

Françoise Fabian

Dream Sequence

Marie-Christine Barrault

Dream Sequence

Haydée Politoff

Dream Sequence

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