Story of Women
(1988)
Une affaire de femmes
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Nils Tavernier, Marie Trintignant, Lolita Chammah
Director: Claude Chabrol
Writer: Claude Chabrol, Colo Tavernier
Language: English
Studio: MK2 Productions
Duration: 108
During World War II, in occupied France, a woman of limited schooling raises two children in a ratty flat. She is Marie Latour. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from the front, too weak to hold a job. Marie discovers she can make money performing abortions, using a soapy water douche. Many of her clients are knocked up by occupying Germans. She buys better food and clothes, looks for a new flat, and, through an acquaintance who is a prostitute, rents out her bedrooms to hookers during the day. She's indifferent to Paul; his humiliations grow as does her income. She hopes to be a singer. Male Vichy umbrage and moral hypocrisy may upend her. What is she thinking?
Isabelle Huppert | Marie |
François Cluzet | Paul |
Nils Tavernier | Lucien |
Marie Trintignant | Lulu / Lucie |
Lolita Chammah | Mouche #2 |
Aurore Gauvin | Mouche #1 |
Guillaume Foutrier | Pierrot #1 |
Nicolas Foutrier | Pierrot #2 |
Marie Bunel | Ginette |
Dominique Blanc | Jasmine |
Louis Ducreux | Père Mourier (scenes deleted) |
Michel Beaune | Le procureur Mourier / Attorney Mourier (scenes deleted) |
Colo Tavernier | Scenario Writer |
Evelyne Didi | Fernande |
Dani | Loulou |
François Maistre | Le président Lamarre-Coudray |
Vincent Gauthier | Me Fillon/Judge Fillon |
Myriam David | Rachel |
Pierre-François Dumeniaud | Le patron du Café |
Bernard Houdeville | Le paysan |
Claire Conty | La coiffeuse |
Thomas Chabrol | Le garçon de café |
Catherine Deville | Yvonne |
Sylvie Flepp | Berthe |
François Lafont | Grocer |
Pierre Martot | Le allemand |
Jurgen Mash | Officier Allemand |
Jean-Claude Lecas | Robert |
Roland Shön | Le vieille homme |
Anne-Marie Etienne | Renee |
Valérie Leboutte | Marcelle |
Fabienne Chaudat | La patiente |
Jacques Vincent | Le résistant |
Jeannine Hames | La cantatrice |
Bernard Cherboeuf | L'inspecteur |
Huguette Maillard | Monique |
Elisabeth Sender | Francine |
Valérie Soudant | Armelle |
Lise Roy | La garde |
Jean-michel Noirey | Bailiff |
Madeleine Marie | Albertinie |
Caroline Berg | Hélène Fillon |
Henri Attal | Un poicier au procès |
Jacques Brunet | Col. Chabert |
Colette Charbonneau | |
Franck de la Personne | L'avocat stagiaire Martinet (as Frank Lapersonne) |
Pascal Guégan | |
Jean Rabier | Cinematographer |
Monique Fardoulis | Film Editor |
Jean-Berthieu Chabrol | Sound Department |
Maurice Gilbert | Sound Department |
Jean-Bernard Thomasson | Sound Department |
Jean-François Klein | |
Jean-Marc Roulot | |
Matthieu Chabrol | Composer |
Françoise Benoît-Fresco | Production Designer |
Corinne Jorry | Custome Designer |
Genre: Drama
Media: DVD
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
IMDb: 0096336