alr

A Few Days with Me
(Quelques jours avec moi)

Screening on Film
Directed by Claude Sautet.
With Daniel Auteuil, Sandrine Bonnaire, Danielle Darrieux.
France, 1988, 35mm, color, 131 min.
French with English subtitles.

After having a nervous breakdown which caused him to stop speaking, an heir to a family-run chain of supermarkets (Auteuil) emerges from a stay at a psychiatric hospital. His mother (Darrieux) sends him to inspect one of the stores in the town of Limoges where he meets a young woman (Bonnaire) with whom he begins a brief yet idyllic affair. A series of complications develop involving, among others, the woman’s boyfriend, who proves to be a comrade rather than a rival for the young woman’s affections. As in his later film, Un Coeur en Hiver, Sautet delicately handles the intricacies of this cinematic love triangle and offers a pointed critique of bourgeois culture.

Part of film series

Read more

Treasures from the Harvard Film Archive: A–Z

Current and upcoming film series

Read more

Melville et Cie.

Read more

Psychedelic Cinema

Read more

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

Read more

The Shochiku Centennial Collection

Read more

António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

Read more
sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

Read more

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

Read more

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

Read more
a mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada