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Story of Women

Original title: Une affaire de femmes
  • 19881988
  • TV-14TV-14
  • 1h 48m
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7.5/10
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Isabelle Huppert in Story of Women (1988)
A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.
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A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.
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    • Claude Chabrol
    • Colo Tavernier(dialogue)
    • Claude Chabrol
    • Francis Szpiner(book "Une affaire de femmes")
  • Stars
    • Isabelle Huppert
    • François Cluzet
    • Marie Trintignant
    • Claude Chabrol
    • Colo Tavernier(dialogue)
    • Claude Chabrol
    • Francis Szpiner(book "Une affaire de femmes")
  • Stars
    • Isabelle Huppert
    • François Cluzet
    • Marie Trintignant
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    • 16User reviews
    • 40Critic reviews
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    Isabelle Huppert
    Isabelle Huppert
    • Marie
    François Cluzet
    François Cluzet
    • Paul
    Marie Trintignant
    Marie Trintignant
    • Lulu…
    Nils Tavernier
    Nils Tavernier
    • Lucien
    Lolita Chammah
    Lolita Chammah
    • Mouche #2
    Aurore Gauvin
    • Mouche #1
    Guillaume Foutrier
    • Pierrot #1
    Nicolas Foutrier
    • Pierrot #2
    Marie Bunel
    Marie Bunel
    • Ginette
    Dominique Blanc
    Dominique Blanc
    • Jasmine
    Evelyne Didi
    Evelyne Didi
    • Fernande
    Dani
    Dani
    • Loulou
    François Maistre
    François Maistre
    • Le président Lamarre-Coudray
    Vincent Gauthier
    Vincent Gauthier
    • Me Fillon…
    Myriam David
    • Rachel
    Pierre-François Dumeniaud
    Pierre-François Dumeniaud
    • Le patron du Café
    Bernard Houdeville
    • Le paysan
    Claire Conty
    • La coiffeuse
      • Claude Chabrol
      • Colo Tavernier(dialogue)
      • Claude Chabrol
      • Francis Szpiner(book "Une affaire de femmes")
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    • Trivia
      Based upon the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, with character names changed.
    • Quotes

      Marie: It's easy to keep your hands clean when you're rich.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Fat Man and Little Boy/I, Madman/Gross Anatomy/Story of Women/When the Whales Came (1989)
    • Soundtracks
      Le Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer
      Written by Ernest Chausson

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    Cinema Omnivore - Story of Women (1988) 8.6/10
    "With regard to the hot-button issue of abortion, unlike similar-themed works such as Mike Leigh's VERA DRAKE (2004), Chabrol refuses to head into sentimentality of snot and lachrymose excretion, Marie reckons her act as a means to earn money and help those really in need, without much qualms (only later she tentatively asks Lulu, do fetuses have souls? And Lulu shoots back a piercing zinger). Even when a philoprogenitive mother (Blanc, her confession is delivered with pluperfect poignancy) dies after the homespun procedure, there is no compunction can be found on Huppert's steely face, only commiserations. For Marie, it is a risk entailed, she did nothing wrong, and it doesn't stop her to take the fee, the film's pro-choice stance is unbending and cogently asserted."

    read my full review on my Cinema Omnivore, thanks.
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    • Release date
      • February 1990 (United States)
      • France
      • MK2 Films (France)
      • French
      • German
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    • Filming locations
      • Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne, France
    • Production companies
      • MK2 Productions
      • Films A2
      • Les Films du Camélia
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    • 1 hour 48 minutes
      • Mono

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