Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) 7.4
A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute. Director:Robert Bresson |
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Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) 7.4
A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute. Director:Robert Bresson |
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Paul Bernard | ... |
Jean
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María Casares | ... |
Hélène
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Elina Labourdette | ... |
Agnès
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Lucienne Bogaert | ... |
Mme. D
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Jean Marchat | ... |
Jacques
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Yvette Etiévant | ... |
La bonne
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Marcel Rouzé |
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Bernard La Jarrige |
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Lucy Lancy |
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Nicole Regnault |
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Emma Lyonel |
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Marguerite de Morlaye |
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Realizing that her lover (Jean) is losing interest in her, a society lady (Hélène) gets revenge by tricking him into marrying a former prostitute (Agnès). After the wedding Helene tells a stunned Jean about his wife's secret past, but the ending has more than one surprise twist. This is a modernized but fairly faithful adaptation of the story of Madame de La Pommeraye from Denis Diderot's novel Jacques le Fataliste. Written by English Showalter <showalte@crab.rutgers.edu>
It is Bresson's most accessible, classically structured film. Taken from Diderot, it is a story of love, betrayal and revenge. Why a masterpiece? Because it is one of the few films which manage to give the viewer a true sense of what love is and/or should be, of what it may achieve, avoiding the corny lexicon of romance, turning the potentially stale conventions of melodrama into an altogether plausible concoction of events, gestures, actions directly speaking to our experience. In its perfectly self-contained way it keeps showing us again and again that people may actually love each other, in spite of all.