The Lovers (film)

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name = The Lovers


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caption = A scene from "The Lovers"
director = Louis Malle
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starring = Jeanne Moreau
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released = 1958
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country = France
language = French
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amg_id = 1:30379
imdb_id = 0052556

"The Lovers" ("Les Amants") is a 1958 French drama film about adultery directed by Louis Malle and starring Jeanne Moreau. It tells the story of a woman who leaves her husband for another man after a night of passion. It was Malle's second feature film, made when he was 25 years old.

The film is important in American legal history as it resulted in a court case that questioned the definition of obscenity. A showing of the film in Cleveland Heights, Ohio's Coventry Village resulted in a criminal conviction of the theatre manager for public depiction of obscene material. He appealed his conviction to the United States Supreme Court, which reversed the conviction and ruled that the film was not obscene in its written opinion ("Jacobellis v. Ohio"). The case resulted in Justice Potter Stewart's famously vague definition of obscenity: "I know it when I see it."

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title=Special Jury Prize, Venice
years=1958
tied with "La sfida"
before="A Streetcar Named Desire"
after="The Magician"