Story of Women

Story of Women

Infobox Film
name = Story of Women


image_size =
caption = DVD cover
director = Claude Chabrol
producer = Marin Karmitz
writer = Colo Tavernier
Claude Chabrol
Francis Szpiner (book)
narrator =
starring = Isabelle Huppert
François Cluzet
Nils Tavernier
music = Matthieu Chabrol
cinematography = Jean Rabier
editing = Monique Fardoulis
distributor = MK2 Diffusion (France)
New Yorker Films (USA)
released = September 15 1988
runtime = 108 mins
country = France
language = French
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:47109
imdb_id = 0096336

"Story of Women" (French title: "Une affaire de femmes") is a 1988 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. Based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, and the book by Francis Szpiner, it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.

Plot

Isabelle Huppert plays an abortionist in 1940s Nazi occupied France.

elected cast

*Isabelle Huppert as Marie
*François Cluzet as Paul
*Nils Tavernier as Lucien
*Marie Trintignant as Lulu/Lucie
*Lolita Chammah as Mouche #2
*Aurore Gauvin as Mouche #1

Awards

In 1988, Isabelle Huppert won the Best Actress award at the Valladolid International Film Festival and the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival. In 1989, the film won the Golden Precolumbian Circle at the Bogota Film Festival, the LAFCA Award at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the NBR Award at the National Board of Review, USA and the NYFCC Award at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. In 1990 it won the Sant Jordi Award, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Film and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.

External links

*imdb title|0096336


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