The Long Absence

The Long Absence (Une Aussi Longue Absence)
Film poster
Directed by	Henri Colpi
Produced by	Alberto Barsanti Claude Jaeger
Written by	Marguerite Duras Gérard Jarlot
Starring	Alida Valli Georges Wilson Charles Blavette
Music by	Georges Delerue
Cinematography	Marcel Weiss
Edited by	Jasmine Chasney Jacqueline Meppiel
Distributed by	Commercial Pictures
Release dates	17 May 1961 (France) 15 November 1962 (U.S.)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Long Absence (French: Une aussi longue absence) is a 1961 French film directed by Henri Colpi. It tells the story of Therese (Alida Valli), a café owner mourning the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times.

The Long Absence shared the Palme d'Or prize with the Luis Buñuel film Viridiana at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Cast

Alida Valli as Thérèse Langlois
Georges Wilson as The Tramp
Charles Blavette as Fernand
Amédée as Marcel Langlois
Paul Faivre as Pensioner
Pierre Parel as Manager
Catherine Fonteney as Alice
Diane Lepvrier as Martine (as Diana Lepvrier)
Nane Germon as Simone
Georges Bellec as Young man
Charles Bouillaud as Favier
Corrado Guarducci as Workman
Clément Harari as Man at Juke Box
Jean Luisi as Workman
Pierre Mirat as Druggist

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: The Long Absence". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-02-20.

External links

Palme d'Or winning films

Union Pacific (1939)
Iris and the Lieutenant (1946)
The Lost Weekend (1946)
The Red Meadows (1946)
Brief Encounter (1946)
María Candelaria (1946)
Neecha Nagar (1946)
The Turning Point (1946)
La Symphonie Pastorale (1946)
The Last Chance (1946)
Men Without Wings (1946)
Rome, Open City (1946)
The Third Man (1949)
Miss Julie (1951)
Miracle in Milan (1951)
The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952)
Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Gate of Hell (1954)
Marty (1955)
The Silent World (1956)
Friendly Persuasion (1957)
The Cranes Are Flying (1958)
Black Orpheus (1959)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
The Long Absence (1961)
Viridiana (1961)
O Pagador de Promessas (1962)
The Leopard (1963)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965)
A Man and a Woman (1966)
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
Blowup (1967)
if.... (1969)
MASH (1970)
The Go-Between (1971)
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1972)
The Mattei Affair (1972)
The Hireling (1973)
Scarecrow (1973)
The Conversation (1974)
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Padre Padrone (1977)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Tin Drum (1979)
All That Jazz (1980)
Kagemusha (1980)
Man of Iron (1981)
Missing (1982)
Yol (1982)
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Paris, Texas (1984)
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
The Mission (1986)
Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Best Intentions (1992)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
The Piano (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Underground (1995)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
The Eel (1997)
Eternity and a Day (1998)
Rosetta (1999)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
The Son's Room (2001)
The Pianist (2002)
Elephant (2003)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
The Child (2005)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
The Class (2008)
The White Ribbon (2009)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Amour (2012)
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Winter Sleep (2014)
Dheepan (2015)
I, Daniel Blake (2016)

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