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LES UNS ET LES AUTRES (BOLERO)
France, 1981
Written and directed by Claude Lelouch
With Geraldine Chaplin, James Caan, Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia
Music by Michel Legrand and Francis Lai
Approx. 177 min. DCP.
An epic historical fresco tracing the lives of four families of musicians from the mid-1930’s to the present, LES UNS ES LES AUTRES (released as BOLERO in the U.S.), spans two generations and four countries, with Lelouch exploring the interplay between personal stories and the broader sweep of history. The family sagas were drawn mainly from experiences recounted to Lelouch from people he knew. “It is a film about memory. About my memories, my parents' memories. All the stories in the film are true, they all happened to real people. But memory is a very strange thing, sometimes precise, sometimes bizarre. It is another world; it has nothing to do with reality.” – Claude Lelouch
Watch Daniel Kramer’s “Trailers from Hell” essay on LES UNS ET LES AUTRES.