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Story of Women
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Story of Women
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Features: DVD, Mono Audio, English, Subtitled
From acclaimed director Claude Chabrol (La Ceremonie, 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, Story of Women is an honest, original, and utterly absorbing film, which won Isabelle Huppert Best Actress honors at the Venice Film Festival.
"One of the masterpieces of this decade." The New York Times
Editor's Note
Claude Chabrol traces the sordid and sad trajectory of Nazi-occupied France during World War II through the tragic, tumble-down journey of one woman. Isabelle Hupert plays Marie, a young woman with two children who has carved out a life for herself during her husbands absence, barely managing to feed her children, gleaning some happiness from jukeboxes and girlfriends, and by performing an occasional amateur abortion for her neighbors. When her shell-shocked husband returns from the labor camps, Marie takes matters into her own hands and turns her skills into a booming abortion business, boarding prostitute friends on the side and taking a collaborator for a lover. While Chabrol details Marie's descent into amorality with brutal honesty, he nonetheless contextualizes her sins and shows her truly as a victim of the chaos of France's confused response to Nazi occupation.
Plot Summary
In STORY OF WOMEN, the mysteries of human psychology and motivation so often probed by Chabrol are set in sharp relief in the World War II setting of Vichy, France. The true story of a woman who is senselessly guillotined in Nazi-occupied France for performing an abortion on her troubled neighbor, the film presents remarkably complex and surprising characters and paints a portrait of an equally complex time in France's history.
| Features | Audio: French Dolby Digital Mono | | Director Commentary | | Director Filmography | | Essay By Film Critic And Author Wheeler Winston Dixon | | Interviews | | Subtitles: English | | Theatrical Trailer |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Image |
| Release Date: 7/27/2004 |
| Running Time: 108 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1988 | | Catalog ID: 180 | | UPC: 00037429196625 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: French | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], French | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.66:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Francois Cluzet | | Isabelle Huppert | | Marie Trintigant | | Nils Tavernier | | Claude Chabrol - Screenplay | | Claude Chabrol - Director | | Colo Tavernier - Screenplay | | Francis Szpiner - Based On Novel By | | Jean Rabier - Cinematographer | | Marin Karmitz - Producer | | Monique Fardoulis - Editor |
| Awards |
Venice Film Festival (1988) | | Isabelle Huppert, Winner, Best Actress |
| Memorable Quotes| "I need to have fun. I'm still young, after all." ---- Marie Latour (ISABELLE HUPPERT) | | "It can't be harder than anything else." ---- Marie Latour (ISABELLE HUPPERT) describing an abortion | | "She's never been Jewish. She would've told me." ---- Marie Latour (ISABELLE HUPPERT) |
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