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Story of Women (1988)
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Overview
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Release Date:
February 1990 (USA)
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Plot:
During World War II, in occupied France, a woman of limited schooling raises two children in a ratty flat...
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Prostitute
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Children
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Abortion
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Hooker
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Singing Lesson
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 13 wins
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5 nominations
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Beyond any moral.
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Cast
(in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification) | Isabelle Huppert | ... | Marie |
 | François Cluzet | ... | Paul |
 | Marie Trintignant | ... | Lulu / Lucie |
| Nils Tavernier | ... | Lucien |
| Lolita Chammah | ... | Mouche #2 |
| Aurore Gauvin | ... | Mouche #1 |
| Guillaume Foutrier | ... | Pierrot #1 |
| Nicolas Foutrier | ... | Pierrot #2 |
| Marie Bunel | ... | Ginette |
 | Dominique Blanc | ... | Jasmine |
| Evelyne Didi | ... | Fernande |
| Dani | ... | Loulou |
| François Maistre | ... | Le président Lamarre-Coudray |
| Vincent Gauthier | ... | Me Fillon / Judge Fillon |
| Myriam David | ... | Rachel |
| Pierre-François Dumeniaud | ... | Le patron du Café |
| Bernard Houdeville | ... | Le paysan |
| Claire Conty | ... | La coiffeuse |
 | Thomas Chabrol | ... | Le garçon de café |
| Catherine Deville | ... | Yvonne |
| Sylvie Flepp | ... | Berthe |
| François Lafont | ... | Grocer |
| Pierre Martot | ... | L'allemand |
| Jurgen Mash | ... | Officier allemand |
| Jean-Claude Lecas | ... | Robert |
| Roland Shön | ... | Le vieille homme |
| Anne-Marie Etienne | ... | Renée |
| Valérie Leboutte | ... | Marcelle |
| Fabienne Chaudat | ... | La patiente |
| Jacques Vincent | ... | Le résistant |
| Pascal Guégan | ||
| Jeannine Hames | ... | La cantatrice |
| Bernard Cherboeuf | ... | L'inspecteur |
| Elisabeth Sender | ... | Francine (as Elizabeth Sender) |
| Huguette Maillard | ... | Monique |
| Valérie Soudant | ... | Armelle |
| Lise Roy | ... | La garde |
| Jean-Michel Noirey | ... | Bailiff (as Jean-Michel Noiret) |
| Madeleine Marie | ... | Albertinie |
| Caroline Berg | ... | Hélène Fillon |
| Colette Charbonneau | ||
| Jacques Brunet | ... | Col. Chabert |
| Henri Attal | ... | Un poicier au procès |
| Jean-François Klein | ||
| Jean-Marc Roulot | ||
| Franck de la Personne | ... | L'avocat stagiaire Martinet (as Frank Lapersonne) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Michel Beaune | ... | Le procureur Mourier / Attorney Mourier (scenes deleted) (uncredited) |
| Louis Ducreux | ... | Père Mourier (scenes deleted) (uncredited) |
Directed by | |||
| Claude Chabrol | |||
Writing credits | ||
| Colo Tavernier | (scenario & adaptation) & | |
| Claude Chabrol | (scenario & adaptation) | |
| Colo Tavernier | (dialogue) (as Colo Tavernier O'Hagen) | |
| Francis Szpiner | (book) | |
Produced by | |||
| Marin Karmitz | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Matthieu Chabrol | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Jean Rabier | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Monique Fardoulis | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Françoise Benoît-Fresco | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Corinne Jorry | |||
Production Management | |||
| Yvon Crenn | .... | production manager | |
Sound Department | |||
| Jean-Berthieu Chabrol | .... | sound recordist | |
| Maurice Gilbert | .... | sound | |
| Jean-Bernard Thomasson | .... | sound | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Dominique Robert | .... | best boy grip | |
Production Companies
- MK2 Productions
- Films A2
- Films du Camélia
- Sofinergie Films (in association with)
- MK2 Diffusion (1988) (France) (theatrical)
- MK2 Éditions (2002) (France) (DVD)
- NEF 2 Filmproduktion (1989) (West Germany) (theatrical)
- New Yorker Films (1989) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Abril Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
- Ascot Video (1989) (West Germany) (VHS)
- Concorde Home Entertainment (2008) (Germany) (DVD)
- Good Movies (2002) (Argentina) (subtitled)
- Home Vision Entertainment (HVE) (2004) (USA) (DVD)
- New Yorker Video (USA) (VHS)
- P.F.A. Films (2010) (Italy) (all media)
- Plus Video (2010) (Argentina) (DVD)
Additional Details
Also Known As:
"Une affaire de femmes" - France (original title)
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Runtime:
108 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Certification:
Iceland:14 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:16 (f) | Australia:M | USA:TV-14 (cable rating) | Portugal:M/18 | Argentina:16
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Trivia:
Based upon the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud.See more »
Soundtrack:
Le poéme de l'amour et de la merSee more »
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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.