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Une femme douce

1969

Robert Bresson

Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Jacques Kébadian ...

7.1

749

Drama A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominate her, she considered murdering him, but found herself unable to do it... An adaptation of Dostoevsky's short story.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Greenspun The New York Times	"Of course there are lesser and greater Bresson films. I think 'Une Femme Douce' belongs among the greater ones."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] is still difficult, devastating and captivating (...) It is an unforgiving film: sombre, difficult, like a medieval poem (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Time Out	"A wonderfully lucid adaptation of Dostoievsky's enigmatic short story"

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