They knew each other a long time ago. A man and a woman, whose dazzling, unexpected love story, captured in a now legendary parenthesis, will have revolutionized our way of seeing love. Today, the former racing driver is a little lost on the paths of his memory. To help him, his son will find the one that his father was unable to keep, but that he constantly mentions. Anne will see Jean-Louis again and pick up their story where they left off.
The Best Years of a Life (French: Les plus belles années d’une vie) is a 2019 French drama film directed by Claude Lelouch. It was screened out of competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It follows the lead characters featured in the earlier films A Man and a Woman (1966) and A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986). It is also Trintignant’s and Aimée’s final film roles during their lifetimes until their deaths in 2022 and 2024.
