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Director:

Claude Chabrol

Writers:

Colo Tavernier (scenario & adaptation) &
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Release Date:

February 1990 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama more

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 11 wins & 3 nominations more

User Comments:

A Sad Affair more (9 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Isabelle Huppert ... Marie
François Cluzet ... Paul
Nils Tavernier ... Lucien
Marie Trintignant ... Lulu / Lucie
Lolita Chammah ... Mouche #2
Aurore Gauvin ... Mouche #1
Guillaume Foutrier ... Pierrot #1
Nicolas Foutrier ... Pierrot #2
Marie Bunel ... Ginette
Dominique Blanc ... Jasmine
Louis Ducreux ... Père Mourier (scenes deleted)
Michel Beaune ... Le procureur Mourier / Attorney Mourier (scenes deleted)
Evelyne Didi ... Fernande
Dani ... Loulou
François Maistre ... Le président Lamarre-Coudray
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Story of Women (USA)
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Runtime:

108 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Based upon the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud. more

Soundtrack:

Fun on the fair more


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13 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
A Sad Affair, 14 March 2006
7/10
Author: pegd-1 from Connecticut

With cool detachment and a subtle touch of horror, Claude Chabrol dissects the story of a woman who was guillotined during the Nazi occupation of France. One of his strengths as a director is that he allows the movie goer to form his/her own thoughts and opinions about the issues at hand. He is not a proselytizer.

The film covers a lot of ground: illegal abortion, collaborating with the enemy, parenting, marital communication, greed and a slew of other human weaknesses. All of this against the backdrop of an occupied France, a country who witnessed the horrors of WWI and never fully recovered, and whose WWII soul (what is left of it) has been torn apart.

Isabelle Huppert does a fine job interpreting Marie LaTour, the woman in question. Marie is not the most sympathetic of characters. In fact, most of the major characters are not "sympathique".(My favorite character is the prostitute Lulu, acted by Marie Trintignant.)

All in all a well directed, well structured film about a tragic period in the lives of the French people. But you be the judge.

Trivia: "Vera Drake" and "L'Affaire de Femmes" both begin in apartments which have the the same god awful green walls.

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