Woman's Life
The power of Mr. Brizé's film - and of Ms. Chemla's quietly volcanic performance - lies partly in the way ordinary disasters erupt in Jeanne's life.
A Woman's Life
Adapted from the novel Une vie by Guy de Maupassant, A Woman’s Life is a tale of tormented love embedded in the restrictive social and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th-century Normandy. Upon finishing her schooling in a convent, young aristocrat Jeanne (Judith Chemla) marries local Viscount Julien de Lamare (Swann Arlaud), who soon reveals himself to be a miserly and unfaithful husband. As she navigates his chronic infidelity, pressure from her family and community, and the alternating joys and burdens of motherhood, Jeanne’s rosy illusions about her privileged world are slowly stripped away. French filmmaker Stéphane Brizé shoots this follow-up to his Cannes and César Award-winner The Measure of a Man in constricted 4:3 Academy ratio, creating a tightly composed work that perfectly translates de Maupassant’s portrayal of life’s indifferences.
Genre
Drama,
French Cinema
Runtime
119
Language
French
Director
Stéphane Brizé
Writer(s)
Stéphane Brizé,
Florence Vignon,
Guy de Maupassant
Cast
Judith Chemla,
Jean-Pierre Darroussin,
Yolande Moreau,
Swann Arlaud,
Nina Meurisse
Awards:
Nominee, Best Actress, Cesar Awards
Winner, FIPRESCI Prize ~ Best Film, Venice Film Festival
Nominee, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice
Stéphane Brizé's 'The Measure of a Man,' from 2015, showed us a modern factory worker's soiling experience of the postindustrial economy. Now 'A Woman's Life' begins on the Normandy coast in the middle of the nineteenth century but is no less concerned with francs and debts, with how lives get ...
Played at
Royal 5.12.17 - 5.25.17
Playhouse 7 5.12.17 - 5.18.17
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