Une femme française (1995)

Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through ... See full summary »

Director:

Régis Wargnier

Writers:

Alain Le Henry, Régis Wargnier

Stars:

Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil, Gabriel Barylli

3 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Emmanuelle Béart	...	Jeanne
Daniel Auteuil	...	Louis
Gabriel Barylli	...	Mathias Behrens
Jean-Claude Brialy	...	Arnoult
Geneviève Casile	...	Solange
Michel Etcheverry	...	Charles
Laurence Masliah	...	Helene
Jean-Noël Brouté	...	Marc
Isabelle Guiard	...	Mathilde
François Caron	...	Andre
Maria Fitzi	...	Liseul
Samuel Le Bihan	...	Henri
Heinz Bennent	...	Andreas
Antoine du Merle	...	Antoine
Desiree Dupont	...	Armelle

Storyline

Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hopiing to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.

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Plot Keywords:

military | year 1940 | berlin germany | colonial war | beach | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

UK France Germany

Language:

French German English Russian

Release Date:

15 March 1995 (France)

Also Known As:

A French Woman

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Box Office

Gross:

$170,149 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

D.A. Films, Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Studio Babelsberg

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

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User Reviews

Make love not war..

Régis Wargnier loves to take his characters all around the planet(see also "Indochine" or "man to man" in the pygmies land;probably because of his own childhood).He also loves Douglas Sirk :no less than two extracts of his movies are included:"battle hymn" (1957)the moral of which was rather dubious ,and the great "written on the wind " (brief extract where Dorothy Malone "dances her dad" to death )Emmanuelle even imitates the American star ,in a blood red dress.Funny,I had been thinking of Sirk before his extracts were shown ;Jeanne could be a Sirkian heroine and the screenplay is primarily a melodrama ;the genre can produce masterpieces (Sirk,Stahl,Minnelli) but it takes a lot a madness,something more than this academic directing.The movie looks like a blueprint for miniseries the episodes of which being " meeting at the station" "the soldier has come home" " lost in a devastated land" " back in Paris and daddy's gone away again" etc .All in all,the film does not equal the sum of its numerous parts .With a husband whose spouse is more the army than Emmanuelle Béart ,who could blame this "sinner" ?Best idea is the romantic ending but it's botched ! See it for the two principals ,two of the best actors of today.