Starring Marlène Jobert, Jean Yanne, and Macha Méril, the film is based on a novel of the same name by Pialat.

She meets a divorced man with a good job who likes foreign travel, and agrees to marry him.

We Won't Grow Old Together was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Kino Lorber on 8 August 2014.

New York Magazine wrote "It's deeply upsetting, featuring the kind of emotional brutality we just don't see in movies anymore.

"[4] Praising the director, The New Yorker's Richard Brody wrote "Pialat captures the push-and-pull of their impossible relationship with pugnacious images and abrupt editing.