Une femme douce (1969) AKA A Gentle Woman

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Elle steps off the balcony of her Parisian apartment, plunging to her death. Why has she done it? As her pawnbroker husband, Luc, looks over her dead body, director Robert Bresson’s eerie, elegant picture traces their lives together in flashback. Elle is the “Gentle Creature” — meek, dreamy and thoughtful. She entrances Luc, who pursues her passionately. They marry, but the match never seems right, and things turn sour, grimly heading toward an inevitable end.

Director: Robert Bresson. AKA A Gentle Woman
Writers: Fyodor Dostoevsky (from the short story by), Robert Bresson (adaptation) (uncredited)
Stars: Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Claude Ollier, Jacques Kébadian, Gilles Sandier, Dorothée Blank.

Cinematographer: Ghislain Cloquet.
Composer: Jean Wiener.

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6 Comments

  1. Lemmy
    September 4, 2019
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    Big thank you, Jon!

  2. Rob
    September 4, 2019
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    Wow I’ve been looking for this everywhere. Never even thought of requesting it. Thanks so much Jon for this upload!

  3. August
    September 5, 2019
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    Thank you!

  4. October 29, 2019
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    Bresson’s silences, his understatement, the ellipses when we look for answers is what I find so compelling. Thank you for this film and perhaps more Bresson if possible?

  5. Pedro Duarte
    January 6, 2022
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    Thank you

  6. Joe
    August 3, 2023
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    Was this transferred from VHS? The image quality is not very good, and the aspect ratio is not correct.

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