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A Gentle Woman (1969)

A Gentle Woman poster
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
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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)

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