Cigarette count: 46
Six months preparation. The sequence of the accident took ten days to film. The film inspired a song performed by Frida Boccara (theme by Telemann): "L'année où Piccoli jouait les Choses de la Vie"
Pierre drives a 1962 Alfa Romeo Giulietta - Sprint Veloce, of which fewer than 3000 were made.
This movie is the first of five collaborations between director Claude Sautet and actors Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli, for the same movies, all in the 70s.
It also marks the first of eleven collaborations between Sautet and composer Philippe Sarde.