{"id":20786,"date":"2025-01-07T22:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T22:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=20786"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:29:40","slug":"a-womans-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/a-womans-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A WOMAN’S LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A WOMAN’S LIFE<\/h2>\n

| 2017 – 125′ – Drama,\u00a0Film & Literature.
\nWritten by:\u00a0St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9, Florence Vignon.
\nBased on the Novel by: Guy de Montpassant.
\nDirected by:\u00a0St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9.
\nStarring:\u00a0Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Arlaud, Clotilde Hesme.
\nOfficial Selection Venice International Film Festival 2016. Winner Louis-Delluc Prize 2016.
\nOfficial Competition\u00a0COLCOA 2017<\/strong>.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Kino Lorber release.\u00a0|<\/p>\n

Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis-Delluc for 2016, A Woman\u2019s Life brings a formalistic rigor to Guy de Maupassant\u2019s essential French novel Une Vie; the result is a rare costume drama that refuses to romanticize the world it depicts. Spanning the life of the aristocratic but essentially powerless Baroness Jeanne Le Perthius des Vauds, the saga begins in Normandy 1819, when Jeanne is leaving the convent where she has been raised and educated. Jeanne\u2019s sheltered and idyllic upbringing sets her up for a lifetime of bitter disappointments beginning with an arranged marriage to Julien de Lamare. Her imagined prince charming quickly turns into a philandering ne\u2019er-do-well after he gains control of Jeanne\u2019s inheritance. Tight framing, elliptical scenes, and shifting timelines lend immediacy to this moving depiction of a woman boxed in by a repressive society organized first and foremost to preserve the privilege of a few highborn men. Judith Chemla\u2019s meticulous performance as Jeanne earned a nomination for a 2017 Best Actress C\u00e9sar Award.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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