The Story of Women with Isabelle Huppert: DVD Cover

    The Story of Women
    a.k.a. Une Affaire de Femmes, The Story of Women, Women's Affair Director: Claude Chabrol Cast: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier

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    • DVD Release Date: 07/27/2004
    • Original Release: 1988
    • Rating: Not Rated

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    Features

    New Digital transfer, enhanced for 16x9 televisions; Scene comments by Claude Chabrol; Presentation by critic Joël Magny; Interviews with producer Marin Karmitz and writer Francis Szpiner; Director filmography; Original French theatrical trailer; Essay by film critic and author Wheeler Winston Dixon

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Madame Latour [6:12]
    2. A Favor [6:58]
    3. Hard Times [7:57]
    4. The Gift [3:07]
    5. Lucie/Lulu [9:36]
    6. A New Profession [4:24]
    7. The Proposition [6:23]
    8. Nazi Games [4:24]
    9. Desperate Measures [6:51]
    10. Lucien [3:21]
    11. Consequences [6:02]
    12. Dirty Job [5:07]
    13. Women's Business [1:12]
    14. Discovery [4:45]
    15. Betrayal [1:59]
    16. Detained [5:28]
    17. State Pawn [3:37]
    18. Maximum Penalty [8:31]
    19. Moral Restoration [3:00]
    20. End Credits [6:34]

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    Editorial Reviews

    The women in this story are the customers of amateur abortionist Isabelle Huppert. The time is 1941, and the place is a Nazi-occupied French town. Struggling to survive, Huppert turns to illegally terminating unwanted pregnancies for a hefty fee. As her income increases, Huppert moves her family from their grimy surroundings to a posh apartment, sharing her digs with her new friend, prostitute Marie Trintignant. Completely seduced by her affluent lifestyle, Huppert ignores her shell-shocked husband Francois Cluzet, preferring to dally with Nazi collaborator Nils Tavernier. Things take a disastrous turn after one of Huppert's "customers" dies and her disgruntled husband turns her over to the authorities. Story of Women was inspired by the real-life tale of Marie-Louise Girard, who in 1943 was executed by the Vichy Government, who'd declared abortion as a Crime Against the State because it diminished the number of potential soldiers. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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