A Gentle Woman (1969)

Original title

Une femme douce

Directed by

Robert Bresson

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 84 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman marries a pawnbroker and their life together becomes strained. The story begins with her death and then shows what led to that moment.

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What happens

A Gentle Woman (French: Une femme douce), also titled A Gentle Creature, is a 1969 French drama film directed by Robert Bresson. It was Bresson's first film in colour and adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1876 short story "A Gentle Creature", moving the setting from 19th century Saint Petersburg to contemporary Paris. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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