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Story of Women (French: Une affaire de femmes) is a 1988 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol, based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, guillotined on 30 July 1943 for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area, and the 1986 book Une affaire de femmes by Francis Szpiner.
Story of Women: Directed by Claude Chabrol. With Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Nils Tavernier. A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.
- (5.8K)
- Drama, History, Romance
- Claude Chabrol
- 1990-02
The movie begins in 1941, in wartime France. Huppert plays Marie, a poor woman with a drunken nobody of a husband. The lives of herself and her two small children are wretched. One day she barges into a neighbor's apartment and finds the woman trying to perform an abortion on herself.
Story of Women. In Nazi-occupied France, Marie (Isabelle Huppert), a mother of two, is struggling to support her family. Her debilitated husband, Paul (François Cluzet), can no longer work when...
- (13)
- Isabelle Huppert
- Claude Chabrol
- Drama
Synopsis. 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.
- (60)
- 2
- Claude Chabrol
- 108 min
Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from German captivity, too weak to hold a job. Marie discovers she can make money performing abortions, using a soapy water douche.
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Jun 18, 2012 · In occupied France, 1943, Marie (Isabelle Huppert) learns that one friend has been taken by the Nazis, hears from another (Marie Bunel) that their attempted at-home abortion may have failed, then consoles her son (Guillame Foutrier), in Claude Chabrol's true story, Story Of Women, 1989.
