A Little Sun in Cold Water (1971)

Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide | France| Italy

Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfriend Eloïse can help him, he decides to stay with his sister Odile, who lives near Limoges. At a party one evening he meets a wealthy bourgeois woman named Nathalie Sylvener. It is love at first sight, and on his return to Paris, Gilles tells Eloïse that he is now devotedly attached to another woman. Although Nathalie agrees to live with him in Paris, she rejects Gilles' offer of marriage. It is not long before the couple have settled into a routine and their passion begins to cool. Then Nathalie suddenly disappears from Gilles' life...

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Writers

Jean-Claude Carrière
Jacques Deray

Stars

Marc Porel
Gilles Lantier

Claudine Auger
Nathalie Silvener

Barbara Bach
Héloïse / Elvire

Jean-Claude Carrière
François

Gérard Depardieu
Pierre

Judith Magre
Odile

Others...

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Production

Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC), Mega Film

Actor

Marc Porel, Claudine Auger, Barbara Bach, Jean-Claude Carrière, Gérard Depardieu, Judith Magre

Creators

Jean-Claude Carrière (Screenplay), Michel Legrand (Original Music Composer), Françoise Sagan (Novel), François de Lamothe (Production Design), Gérard Beytout (Producer), Jean Badal (Director of Photography), Henri Lanoë (Editor), Jacques Deray (Screenplay), René Pignières (Executive Producer)

Alternative titles

Sunlight on Cold Water (GB)
A Few Hours of Sunlight (US)

Release dates

29.10.1971 (FR)