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A Gentle Woman

A Gentle Woman

A Feature film by Robert Bresson

Produced by Marianne Productions, Parc Film

Release in France : 26/07/1969

    Synopsis

    A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominate her, she considered murdering him, but found herself unable to do it...

    Source : IMDb.

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    Actors (7)

    Production and distribution (3)

    Executive Producers :

    Marianne Productions, Parc Film

    French distribution :

    Paramount Pictures (France)

    Film exports/foreign sales :

    Les Acacias

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    International releases (2)

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    About

    Une femme douce (English title: A Gentle Woman) is a 1969 French drama film directed by Robert Bresson. It is Bresson's first film in color, and adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story "A Gentle Creature (Кроткая)". The film was set in Paris at the time.

    The tragic drama is characterised by Bresson's well known ascetic style, without any dynamic sequences or professional actors' experienced and excessive expressions. Dominique Sanda, starred as "a gentle woman", made her debut in the film, starting her career as an actress. Bresson chose her just as a result of her first voice call.

    The film opens with a flowing curtain, implying a young woman's suicide. Her distraught husband explores in flashbacks what led her to kill herself. The story reveals their desperate, despairing miscommunication. Their dialogue only deepened her isolation and sadness.

    Although the film applies a background of 60s Paris, such as Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and Musée National d'Art Moderne, its theme is accurate to the novella.

    Bresson subsequently made another adaptation of Dostoevsky, his next film Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (Four Nights of a Dreamer) (1971) based on White Nights.

    Source : Wikipedia.

    Full credits (8)

    Author of original work :

    Fiodor Dostoïevski

    Sound Recordist :

    Urbain Loiseau

    Director of Photography :

    Ghislain Cloquet

    Music Composer :

    Jean Wiener

    Producer :

    Mag Bodard

    Screenwriter :

    Robert Bresson

    Editor :

    Raymond Lamy

    Production Designer :

    Pierre Charbonnier

    Technical details

    Feature film

    Genres :

    Fiction

    Sub-genre :

    Psychological drama

    Themes :

    Suicide

    Production language :

    French

    Production country :

    France

    Original French-language productions :

    Yes

    Nationality :

    100% French (France)

    Production year :

    1969

    French release :

    26/07/1969

    Runtime :

    1 h 28 min

    Current status :

    Released

    Visa number :

    34804

    Visa issue date :

    21/07/1969

    Approval :

    Yes

    Production formats :

    35mm

    Color type :

    Color

    Aspect ratio :

    1.66

    Audio format :

    Mono