The Public Woman (1984)

Original title

La Femme publique

Directed by

Andrzej Żuławski

Genre

drama film, erotic film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

18

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 58 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young actress gets cast in a film adaptation of a Dostoevsky novel. She becomes entangled with a manipulative director and an older, obsessive actor, blurring the lines between performance and reality.

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What happens

The Public Woman (French: La femme publique) is a 1984 French erotic drama film, directed by Andrzej Żuławski, starring Valérie Kaprisky, Lambert Wilson and Francis Huster as the lead actors. The film had a total of 1,302,425 admissions in France where it was the 28th-highest-grossing film of the year. The film being recorded inside the film is based on inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1872 novel Demons. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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