i think i would've loved this if there were a high-quality dvd release.

ai, meu estômago!

Ac gozlerini, son bir olsun ac. Bresson'un renkli filmlerinin hepsi birbirinden guzel.

Bresson's minimalist tone fits pretty well with the film's themes of detachment and inability to communicate, and he does relax it a bit when necessary. It still stands out a little too often and as much as I liked the film I just couldn't love it. Dominique Sanda does a very good job, though, and for the most part Bresson makes good use of colour in his compositions.

Good movie, very insightful.

I'm not crazy about Bresson's style from the 50's and onward (Completely stripped-down, lots of silence and voice-over narration, and an expressionless cast deliberately exhausted by strict positioning and endless retakes). A lot of his movies don't gain so much from that. Une Femme Douce is about as close to anorexia as a movie can get. Its delicate symbolism bulges out visibly like bones through the skin of a fleshless body.