L'Amour d'une femme (1953)

Directed by

Jean Grémillon

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman moves to a remote island to practice medicine and must choose between her career and a new love affair. She faces pressure from the local community and her own conflicting desires.

romanticmelancholicbittersweetslow-burnintrospectiveearthyquietly intense

What happens

The Love of a Woman (French: L'amour d'une femme, Italian: L'amore di una donna) is a 1953 French-Italian drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Micheline Presle, Massimo Girotti and Gaby Morlay. It was Grémillon's final feature film as director, although he made a handful of documentaries and short films. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Clavel with costumes by Pierre Balmain. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location on the Île d'Ouessant off Finistère. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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