Three Bedrooms in Manhattan

A recently divorced actor and a no less lonely woman meet by chance in a New York diner. The city – its bars, its cheap motels and its rented rooms – becomes the cinematic setting of the couple’s escalating and mysterious relationship. A move against desperation and drift, their affair nevertheless glows with an urgent and compulsive romance.Georges Simenon was one of the most popular twentieth-century novelists.and Three Bedrooms in Manhattanand – closely based on the story of his own meeting with his second wife – is his most passionate and revealing work.