Les Choses De La Vie (1970)

"Les Choses De La Vie" is a French drama built around one man's fractured recollections after a devastating car accident. Told through shifting flashbacks, it examines love and regret. It carries the melancholic precision that defined French cinema of its era. Romy Schneider stars as the woman at the center of his memories. She delivers a performance full of quiet ache. The archive here holds 2 scenes showing her at her most exposed. This includes nude scene footage that feels tender rather than gratuitous. It's a rare chance to see Schneider bare both physically and emotionally, in a film more concerned with intimacy than spectacle.