Story of Women
Story of Women
France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting a young lover.
Randy Lowe reviewedFebruary 4, 2025
compelling story, and well-paced...but the characters were impossible to fully comprehend for me. lurching, paradoxical, but not in a realistic way...more of a sloppy or confusing way. I was fully expecting a complex and multifaceted group of flawed people to emerge, but, as these contradictions presented themselves scene to scene, they felt like 2d sketches of different people instead of a deepening and fleshing out of a single individual. Maybe Isabelle Huppert is too good at her cold, sphinx-like acting technique, actually. I was never convinced of her humanity or inner motivations.