French Provincial

French Provincial French Souvenirs den France is a 1975 French drama film directed by Andr Tchin, starring Jeanne Moreau, Michel Auclair and MarieFrance Pisier. The film presents an overview of French life and politics though the changes within one family in southwestern France from the 1930s through the 1970s.

While the bourgeois wives of the two other sons mope and become peevish, Berthe makes herself useful. In the war, she is a heroine of the Resistance when the business is imperiled by a strike, she settles it by acceding to the workers demands. She takes over the dominant role in management, and becomes the new matriarch as well. In contrast with the practical Berthe, Regina, her sister in law, is flighty. Dark and beautiful, Regina is married to Prosper, Pdrets youngest son and the only one with a college education. But Regina and the handsome, refined Prosper are a mismatch.A rapacious dreamer, Regina, fed up with the dull austerity of provincial society, runs off with an American soldier. Eventually, Berthe comes to control the familys fortunes, but economic challenges in the 1950s force her to turn to an unlikely source for financial help her obnoxious sisterinlaw Regina who has come back, more stunning than ever, with an American industrialist lover. Regina may now be willing to aid Berthe in exchange for her freedom. ........

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