Ennemies: une histoire d'amour

Original title: Enemies: A Love Story

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

2.7K

YOUR RATING

Lena Olin, Anjelica Huston, Ron Silver, and Malgorzata Zajaczkowska in Ennemies: une histoire d'amour (1989)

Home Video Trailer from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Play trailer0:30

1 Video

25 Photos

Dark Comedy Comedy Drama Romance

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

2.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 4 wins & 10 nominations total

Videos1

Trailer 0:30

Enemies: A Love Story

Photos25

+ 17

More like this

7.1

Equus

7.2

Une femme libre

6.9

Marjorie

7.3

Le baiser de la femme-araignée

6.4

Le cavalier électrique

7.3

Harry et Tonto

6.7

L'honneur des Prizzi

6.4

New York Stories

7.2

L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être

7.0

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

7.3

Harry dans tous ses états

6.7

Winchell

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
After the screenplay had been completed, the Disney studio put the project into turnaround, then after this, every major Hollywood studio turned it down. Writer-director Paul Mazursky declared that the various movie studios thought the story was "too Jewish".

Quotes
Tamara: Don't worry. She won't divorce you. If she does, you can always go to the other one. She throws you out too -- you can come to me.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: She-Devil/Driving Miss Daisy/War of the Roses/Glory/Enemies: A Love Story (1989)

Soundtracks
Sunny Side Of The Street
Composed by Jimmy McHugh
Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Performed by Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra

User reviews19

Featured review

8/10

Wonderful Movie about the Horrors of the Past

A man (Ron SILVER) barely survived the Shoah, but lost his wife and children. In 1949, he lives in Coney Island with his Polish lifesaver (Malgorzata ZAJACZKOWSKA), but has a mistress (Lena OLIN) whom he loves passionately. Then the wife (Anjelica HUSTON), who was believed to be dead, shows up again, and suddenly our hero has three women on his hands...

This extraordinary film was created based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Isaac Beshevis SINGER, who wrote his works in Yiddish. Absolutely sexy, uproariously funny, but also deeply sad! It's about how you can continue to live as a survivor after the Shoah. In a world that seems so untouched by the horrors of the National Socialists. What could seem like a lively sex comedy turns out to be an existentialist drama about the strength and inability to continue living after the unfathomable.

There were ACADEMY AWARD nominations for Anjelica HUSTON and Lena OLIN in 1990. A cinematic gem that should definitely be rediscovered!