The Best Years of a Life

The Best Years of a Life
Film poster
FrenchLes plus belles années d'une vie
Directed byClaude Lelouch
Written byClaude Lelouch
StarringAnouk Aimée
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Release date
  • 18 May 2019 (2019-05-18) (Cannes)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The Best Years of a Life (French: Les plus belles années d'une vie) is a 2019 French drama film directed by Claude Lelouch. It was screened out of competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It follows the lead characters featured in the earlier films A Man and a Woman (1966) and A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986). It is also Trintignant's and Aimée's final film roles during their lifetimes until their deaths in 2022 and 2024.