(A Story of Women)
Country: FR
Technical: col 108m
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier, Dani
Synopsis:
During the Occupation a French housewife in despair at the penury she faces begins performing abortions for the local women, but then develops a taste for material gain and carries things too far.
Review:
Chabrol again casts Huppert as a 'péril en la demeure' anti-heroine (Violette Nozière; Madame Bovary, La Cérémonie and Merci pour le chocolat would follow). It is the kind of role for which she is well suited, though the treatment here of a sordid plotline is straightforward, not without a Chabrol tendency to cynicism, and inconsequential. Only in the final straight does he introduce some national dishonour, while we are deprived the sight of other comeuppances.
(A Story of Women)
Country: FR
Technical: col 108m
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier, Dani
Synopsis:
During the Occupation a French housewife in despair at the penury she faces begins performing abortions for the local women, but then develops a taste for material gain and carries things too far.
Review:
Chabrol again casts Huppert as a 'péril en la demeure' anti-heroine (Violette Nozière; Madame Bovary, La Cérémonie and Merci pour le chocolat would follow). It is the kind of role for which she is well suited, though the treatment here of a sordid plotline is straightforward, not without a Chabrol tendency to cynicism, and inconsequential. Only in the final straight does he introduce some national dishonour, while we are deprived the sight of other comeuppances.
