Film Details

Winner of France’s Louis Delluc Prize for Best French Film of 2016, the new movie from the director of Mademoiselle Chambon and The Measure of a Man focuses on a young, aristocratic, 19^th-century French woman who slowly realizes that her chances for personal fulfillment are thwarted by an unhappy marriage and other crippling social strictures. From a Guy de Maupassant novel. “Haunting and profound…A Woman’s Life is exactly the kind of movie that seems most vital and vulnerable at this moment. It makes no great claims of topical relevance or artistic ambition. It has no stars, no heat, no buzz. It would be very easy to miss, or to vanish into the limbo of limited theatrical release and video-on-demand oblivion. And yet, at the same time, it’s a completely satisfying, thoroughly accomplished piece of work, a film sure of its intentions and able to fulfill them. There could never be too many movies like this one.” –A. O. Scott, The NY Times. Subtitles. DCP. 119 min.