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Woman in Chains (1968)

Woman in Chains poster
Original title
La Prisonnière
Directed by
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Genre
drama film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 46m
Rated
U
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 74 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman living with an avant-garde artist becomes involved with the voyeuristic owner of a gallery that exhibits her husband's work. The relationship spirals into a destructive and dangerous fixation.

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What happens

La Prisonnière (also known as Woman in Chains) is a 1968 drama film written and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. It follows an attractive young woman living with an avant-garde artist who falls disastrously for the voyeuristic owner of the gallery that shows her husband's work. Clouzot's only film completed in colour, it was the last of his career. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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