La bonne année


La bonne année is a 1973 film directed by Claude Lelouch.

Synopsis

Simon, a gangster with his accomplice, prepares to take part in the "first psychological hold-up in the history of crime". Next door to the jewellers of Van Cleef & Arpels, on the Croisette, in Cannes, they find the shop of a beautiful antiques dealer who befriends the group.
The gangster and the antiques dealer fall in love. He is friendly but unrefined, she is cultivated and independent, but discovers that talking with Simon shows up her vanity, and she desires a simple and clean love. The hold-up which had been planned for a long time is shown to be more sophisticated than his methods of seduction.

Cast

Much of the film was financed by advertising, particularly for Van Cleef & Arpels.

Awards

The film was remade as Happy New Year, directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Peter Falk, Charles Durning and Tom Courtenay.