A Little Sun in Cold Water

A Little Sun in Cold Water

110 mins | Drama, Romance | Oct. 29, 1971

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...

A Little Sun in Cold Water

110 mins | Drama, Romance | Oct. 29, 1971

A Little Sun in Cold Water
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...
IMDb rating 5.3
Producers Mega Film, Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)
Original title Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide
Directors Jacques Deray
Writers Jacques Deray, Françoise Sagan, Jean-Claude Carrière

Cast

Marc Porel

as Gilles Lantier

Claudine Auger

as Nathalie Silvener

Barbara Bach

as Héloïse / Elvire

Jean-Claude Carrière

as François

Gérard Depardieu

as Pierre

Judith Magre

as Odile