The Key Is in the Door (1978)

  • NR
  • 12/13/1978 (FR)
  • Drama, Comedy
  • 1h 38m

Overview

Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an emergency physician comes by to treat her. When her daughter starts seeing someone she doesn't much like, and she begins having a brief affair (her first since the divorce) with the ER doctor, she begins to reconsider her policy.

Marie Cardinal

Writer

Yves Boisset

Director, Writer

Cast

Annie Girardot's headshot

Annie Girardot

Marie Arnault
Patrick Dewaere's headshot

Patrick Dewaere

Philippe
Éléonore Klarwein's headshot

Éléonore Klarwein

Charlotte
Stéphane Jobert's headshot

Stéphane Jobert

Jérôme
Barbara Steele's headshot

Barbara Steele

Cathy
Philippe Taccini's headshot

Philippe Taccini

Laurent

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