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6.8/10   386 votes
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Director:
Claude Chabrol
Writers:
Claude Chabrol (writer)
Georges Simenon (novel)
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Release Date:
October 1993 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Marie Trintignant ... Betty Etamble
Stéphane Audran ... Laure
Jean-François Garreaud ... Mario
Yves Lambrecht ... Guy Etamble
Christiane Minazzoli ... Madame Etamble
Pierre Vernier ... Le médecin
Nathalie Kousnetzoff ... Odile
Pierre Martot ... Frédéric

Thomas Chabrol ... Schwartz
Yves Verhoeven ... Philippe
Henri Attal
Coco Bakonyi
Emmanuelle Bataille
Antoine Blanquefort
Mélanie Blatt ... Thérèse
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Runtime:
103 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Germany:12 (w) | Argentina:16
Filming Locations:
Paris, France more
Company:
CED Productions more

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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Very Interesting, 1 April 2005
7/10
Author: darienwerfhorst from United States

Psychological story of the friendship of two women and how one (and a nurse yet) comes to rescue the other.

It's a cautionary tale of the rigid social structure of a certain class of French family where children and wives are treated more like possessions than humans. Note how she isn't allowed to interact with her children..that is handled by the spotless Swiss nanny. Her husband buys her a mink coat, and rather than call it an expression of his love, he calls it an investment. No wonder she begins to drink! And yet she makes a lot of bad choices, which leads her astray from her family, which is maybe what she really wanted....

Marie T. was so sad..her eyes were so sad that I wasn't surprised to find that the actress herself had been killed. The pain in her eyes seemed almost unbearable.

I was disappointed in the end...it seemed to just drop off with not much explanation...I know European movies are much more likely to end this way, and yet I said "Huh?"...and yet I still enjoyed it as a portrait of an increasingly obsolete segment of French society.

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