A Gentle Woman

Une femme douce English title A Gentle Woman is a 1969 French drama film directed by Robert Bresson. It is Bressons first film in color, and adapted from Fyodor Dostoevskys short story A Gentle Creature . The film was set in Paris at the time.

The film opens with a falling scarf, leading us to a young womans dead body on the street. From the later scenes, we understand that the young woman was Elle Dominique Sanda, who steps off the balcony of her Parisian apartment, plunging to her death. Why has she done it? As her distraught husband, Luc Guy Frangin, looks over her dead body, and explores what led her to kill herself in a talk to the maid, the picture traces their lives together in flashbacks. Elle is A Gentle Creature meek, dreamy and thoughtful. She entrances Luc, who pursues her passionately. They marry, but the match never seems right. The story reveals their desperate, despairing miscommunication. Though they try many diversions theater, television, films these are momentary respites for the two of them for Elle moreso, as we see with her interest in Hamlet, which plays out in an extended scene. Their dialogue only deepens her isolation and sadness.

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