Title: Story of Women
Release: 1988
Rating: 7.5
Language: fr
Country: France
Runtime: 108
Genre: Drama
Release | 1988 |
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Rating | 7.5 |
Language | fr |
Country | France |
Runtime | 108 |
Genre | Drama |
Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from German captivity, too weak to hold a job. Marie discovers she can make money performing abortions, using a soapy water douche. Many of her clients are knocked up by occupying Germans. She buys better food and clothes, looks for a new flat, and, through an acquaintance, who is a prostitute, rents out her bedrooms to hookers during the day. She's indifferent to Paul; his humiliations grow as does her income. She hopes to be a singer. Male Vichy umbrage and moral hypocrisy may upend her. What is she thinking?
Colo Tavernier (scenario & adaptation), Claude Chabrol (scenario & adaptation), Colo Tavernier (dialogue), Francis Szpiner (book)