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A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.
- Awards
- 14 wins & 8 nominations
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- TriviaBased upon the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, with character names changed.
- SoundtracksLe Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer
Written by Ernest Chausson
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Beyond any moral.
This is a true story and the heroine is not unlike Louis Malle's hero "Lacombe Lucien".They are too coarse,too immature to realize what they are doing.Lucien could have opted for the Resistance,but he's deemed too stupid by the schoolteacher and he winds up in Collaboration.Chabrol's heroine only wants to "help" her neighbors before she realizes she can earn a lot of dough with abortion.Chabrol watches his character as an entomologist,as she makes her way through those troubled times:the world has gone mad,and anyway is abortion worse than what the authorities are doing with the Jews ?Maréchal Petain's France was so humiliated that it tried to make up with it by focusing on "morality".
The heroine could make also think of Violette Nozières,another Chabrol movie which also featured Huppert.And she's also akin to Sandrine Bonnaire's character in "la cérémonie".All are women overtaken by events,all are victims of a well-meaning society,Chabrol's trademark. "Une affaire de femmes" is certainly a good work although it lacks the sweep and the directing innovations of his late sixties/early seventies classics.
The heroine could make also think of Violette Nozières,another Chabrol movie which also featured Huppert.And she's also akin to Sandrine Bonnaire's character in "la cérémonie".All are women overtaken by events,all are victims of a well-meaning society,Chabrol's trademark. "Une affaire de femmes" is certainly a good work although it lacks the sweep and the directing innovations of his late sixties/early seventies classics.
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- Nov 8, 2002
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- Also known as
- Eine Frauensache
- Filming locations
- Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne, France(interiors: women's prison)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $438,483
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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