Sentimental Education (film)

Sentimental Education
Theatrical release poster
FrenchL'Éducation sentimentale
Directed byAlexandre Astruc
Screenplay by
Produced byJean Tourane
Starring
CinematographyJean Badal
Edited by
  • Geneviève Vaury
  • Maryse Siclier
Music byRichard Cornu
Production
companies
  • Société Française de Cinématographie
  • UFA-Comacico
  • Produttori Associati Internazionali
Distributed byUFA-Comacico
Release dates
  • 23 March 1962 (1962-03-23) (West Germany)
  • 2 May 1962 (1962-05-02) (Italy)
  • 19 September 1962 (1962-09-19) (France)
Running time
92 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Italy
LanguageFrench

Sentimental Education (French: L'Éducation sentimentale; released in the United Kingdom as Lessons in Love) is a 1962 drama film directed by Alexandre Astruc. The story focuses on a student who has an affair with a married middle-class woman whose husband cheats on her with a model. The film is loosely based on the 1869 novel of the same name by Gustave Flaubert. The screenplay was written by Roger Nimier with dialogue by Roland Laudenbach and Alain Astruc.[1]

  1. ^ "L'éducation sentimentale". bifi.fr (in French). Cinémathèque Française. Retrieved 10 May 2015.