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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
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 11 wins & 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
French Actress Isabelle Huppert To Receive Efa's European Achievement Award
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User Comments:
Beyond any moral. more (9 total)

Cast

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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
Certification:
Australia:M | USA:TV-14 (cable rating) | Iceland:14 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:16
Filming Locations:
Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France
Company:
MK2 Productions more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Based upon the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud. more
Soundtrack:
Fun on the fair more

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15 out of 18 people found the following comment useful.
Beyond any moral., 9 November 2002
7/10
Author: dbdumonteil

This is a true story and the heroine is not unlike Louis Malle's hero "Lacombe Lucien".They are too coarse,too immature to realize what they are doing.Lucien could have opted for the Resistance,but he's deemed too stupid by the schoolteacher and he winds up in Collaboration.Chabrol's heroine only wants to "help" her neighbors before she realizes she can earn a lot of dough with abortion.Chabrol watches his character as an entomologist,as she makes her way through those troubled times:the world has gone mad,and anyway is abortion worse than what the authorities are doing with the Jews ?Maréchal Petain's France was so humiliated that it tried to make up with it by focusing on "morality".

The heroine could make also think of Violette Nozières,another Chabrol movie which also featured Huppert.And she's also akin to Sandrine Bonnaire's character in "la cérémonie".All are women overtaken by events,all are victims of a well-meaning society,Chabrol's trademark. "Une affaire de femmes" is certainly a good work although it lacks the sweep and the directing innovations of his late sixties/early seventies classics.

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