Une femme douce. Dir. Robert Bresson (1969)

Gaëlle GINESTET

Reference (explicit)

1. Film data

Une femme douce (A Gentle Woman)
Film
Director(s) : Robert Bresson
Cast : Dominique Sanda (the wife), Guy Frangin (the pawnbroker husband), Jeanne Lobre (Anna, the maid), Claude Ollier (the doctor), Dorothée Blank (the nurse), Gilles Sandier (the mayor), Jacques Kébadian (the man at the cinema)
Script : Robert Bresson
Source : Adapted from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella Krotkaja (Кроткая): A Gentle Creature
Cinematography : Ghislain Cloquet
Editing : Raymond Lamy
Music : Jean Wiener
Design : Pierre Charbonnier
Costumes : Renée Miquel
Producer(s) : Mag Bodard
Production : Parc Films (Paris), Marianne Productions (Paris)
Running time : 88 min.
Country(ies) : France
Year : 1969
Color
Language(s) : French
Video publisher : Unavailable
Medium(s) : Unavailable

English Synopsis

A young woman (Dominique Sanda) jumps out of a window. Her husband (Guy Frangin), next to her corpse, reminisces about their short-lived marriage, trying to find the reason for her act. As an impoverished student, the gentle woman married a pawnbroker. After a few illusory days of happiness, she gradually felt more and more trapped in her husband’s cloistered lifestyle and the marriage started to crumble. The pawnbroker suspected that she was unfaithful.

3. Analysis

Une femme douce by Robert Bresson: Hamlet or Anti- Cinematography
by Gaëlle GINESTET

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