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Story of Women

Story of Women

1988
Drama, Biography
1h 48m
A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war. (imdb)
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Story of Women

1988
Drama, Biography
1h 48m
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Rated 15 May 2011
88
96th
A delicacy for anyone who expects cinema to challenge their perceptions and provoke thinking. Chabrol's movie establishes Marie (marvelously played by Isabelle Huppert) not only as a quack abortionist and pimp but also as a misandristic, adulterous, home-wrecking bitch. In short - everything that is immoral especially for women. The rest of her story then sheds new light on her "original sins", with the unbelievable consequences of her actions placing them in context and partly explaining them.
Rated 29 Jan 2007
85
89th
Dry, emotionally wretching subtle and direct film. Features one of Huppert's very best performances ever.
Rated 22 Jan 2011
75
82nd
Very honest and subtle, both in terms of scenario & story and cinematography & mise en scene. Really sad, too.
Rated 04 Mar 2012
95
94th
Huppert is fiercely accurate as a selfish, complex woman who is not at all likable but with whom we eventually--and greatly--sympathize. This is not only about one women in particular or even about the plight of women in general; it is also about how a society, faced with powerlessness, poverty and an existential threat can commit great crime. This could have been called "The Story of Vichy." Some day it may be our story too. (Chabrol's direction, of course, is masterful.)
Rated 04 Nov 2010
90
87th
Um assunto de mulheres estreava há 35 anos no Festival de Toronto. Sempre que me pedem indicação de filmes sobre criminalização do aborto é esse que sempre indico ao lado do Rosalie do Borowczyk, com o adendo que o filme do Chabrol vai mais além na opressão patriarcal de viés amplamente fascista do regime de Vichy. Sempre lembrando que qualquer governo que tira a autonomia das mulheres e a criminalizam assume uma posição fascista. Box Versátil O Cinema de Claude Chabrol.
Rated 05 Aug 2018
7
61st
Feel good movie of the year.
Rated 15 Jun 2010
4
55th
Very dry.
Rated 06 Aug 2009
75
58th
Une affaire de femmes: 8 // 7 // 9 // 8 // 8 // 6 // 7
Rated 14 May 2022
70
41st
I was worried at one point that it was headed for a Hayes-code-esque turn into tragic moralising, the deserved moral reckoning. Thankfully it steers into more nuanced territory. She’s a fascinating character, frustrating to watch but always compelling. I wish her feelings for other women had been explored more, but it also works as just an ambiguous engine for her motivations. For Rachel
Rated 18 Oct 2021
4
42nd
I guess I don't get it. Was she supposed to be sympathetic? She was a sociopath who cared only for herself. This is the story of women? I don't know... The movie was well made otherwise.

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