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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780028975
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 078002897X
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 27, 2004
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 66427
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: 1990-02
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From acclaimed director Claude Chabrol (La Cérémonie, Merci Pour Le Chocolat) comes the compelling true story of working-class housewife Marie (Isabelle Huppert- The Piano Player, 8 Women), who performs illegal abortions in France during World War II, evading the Nazis, and betraying those she loves. Brought to life by Chabrol on actual locations, The Story of Women is an honest, original, and utterly absorbing film, which won Isabelle Huppert Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.
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Marie Latour (Isabelle Huppert) wants to be a singer, but she is a woman struggling against poverty in war-torn France, with two children to feed and a husband away fighting. When a neighbor becomes pregnant, Marie performs an abortion and is rewarded for her services with a Victrola. It's a small step from the Victrola to an income, and Marie finds that she likes to live comfortably and feed her children well. Her husband Paul (Francois Cluzet) returns and attempts to coerce her into being the type of wife he imagines he wants, but Marie insists on running things her way, and her husband is relegated to the role he imagined for her. She finds contentment in her power (merely the power to be herself and pursue her desires), but things are terribly out of balance in the world she was born into and eventually revenge is exacted. Claude Chabrol (Madame Bovary) has created a remarkably complex and poignant film about a very complex subject: the true story of the last woman to be executed in France by guillotine. An important film to see. --James McGrath
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I wasn't sure what "Story of Women" was going to be about. It interested me to know that it takes place in occupied France during WWII. A woman whose husband has been absent due to service for a period of time finds herself struggling to care for her two kids. Her struggle is presented subtlely and impressively. Once that stage is set, she helps a girl friend abort her pregancy and gets something of value in return. For a life in which there are no luxuries, she suddenly finds herself with a ... Read More
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Based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud (the last woman to be executed in France by guillotine), nouvelle vague director Claude Chabrol's 1988 French drama, Story of Women (Une affaire de femmes), tells the compelling story of Marie Latour (Isabelle Huppert), an abortionist in World War II France. Huppert and Chabrol also combined their talents in La Ceremonie, Comedy of Power, Merci Pour le Chocolat, and Madame Bovary. Marie is a poor, working-class housewife with two children in Nazi-occupied ... Read More
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Set in France during the Nazi occupation in WW II, this is a multi-layered "study" of a poor, uneducated woman (played by Isabelle Huppert) who performs abortions on women whose husbands have been sent to Germany. This woman (based on the true-life Marie-Louise Giraud) has many sides to her character: greedy, selfish, basically amoral, a man-hater (she despises her husband and mistreats her son while doting on her daughter); yet is she any worse than the Nazi regime all around her that kills wantonly? ... Read More
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Claude Chabrol's Une Affaire de Femmes/Story of Women, based on a real-life miscarriage of justice, is a surprisingly even-handed film that steps aside from cheap emotionalism to present the good, the bad and the ugly sides of its abortionist protagonist without resorting to easy judgements a la Mike Leigh and Vera Drake. It's not a cry for or against abortion, merely offering the facts to the viewer to make up their own mind. Huppert's character is amoral in the purest sense of the word: she's not a crusader ... Read More
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Huppert is riveting in the central role: neither fully sympathetic, nor completely loathsome. She won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for this nuanced portrayal. Director Chabrol expertly builds the oppressive tension of French citizens living under the Nazi boot, and the quiet desperation of one woman willing to risk everything for some comfort in a world gone mad.
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