A Story Of Women
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When:
| Mon 18 Apr ’11, 6:15pm–8:00pm |
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Where: The Paramount Theatre, 25 Courtenay Place, Wellington Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
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(Une affair de femmes)
Claude Chabrol | France | 1989 | M
“In this ‘story’ set in Occupation France, Chabrol implies that for women, fascism is life as usual. It is a film Fassbinder might have made, rich in history's innuendo, down to its blindly narcissistic heroine, Marie, driven by a will she at first skittishly, then boldly acknowledges. It is the perfect role for Huppert. A working-class mother, reluctant wife of a vaguely disabled soldier, Marie casually performs an abortion for a desperate neighbor, then figures there is money to be made in ‘women's business.’ She takes on more and more clients, and also lets out rooms to prostitutes, surrogates for her transgressive fiscal and sexual desires. But there is no place for narcissism in war, even less for cynicism. The film is based on the true story of the last woman to receive capital punishment in France.”
- Pacific Film Archive
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