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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 59 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 59 m

Summary Adapted from the novel Une vie by Guy de Maupassant, A Woman’s Life is a tale of tormented love embedded in the restrictive social and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy. Upon finishing her schooling in a convent, young aristocrat Jeanne (Judith Chemla) marries local Viscount Julien de Lamare (Swann Arlaud), who ...

Directed By: Stéphane Brizé

Written By: Florence Vignon, Guy de Maupassant, Stéphane Brizé

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 59 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 59 m

A Woman's Life

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Adapted from the novel Une vie by Guy de Maupassant, A Woman’s Life is a tale of tormented love embedded in the restrictive social and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy. Upon finishing her schooling in a convent, young aristocrat Jeanne (Judith Chemla) marries local Viscount Julien de Lamare (Swann Arlaud), who ...

Directed By: Stéphane Brizé

Written By: Florence Vignon, Guy de Maupassant, Stéphane Brizé

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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36% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
9 Reviews
36% Mixed
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90
May 11, 2017
Riveting in its slow and steady accretion of details, its penetrating and richly textured gaze, A Woman’s Life is a bracing reminder that our experiences are often shaped less by what we achieve than by what we endure.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
90
May 4, 2017
A Woman’s Life has the kind of majesty found not in the grand gesture but the modest detail, the kind that accumulates resonance with each seemingly minor event until the picture of a character becomes as complete as a painting by Ingres. Or a story by Maupassant.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
90
May 4, 2017
Its images and scenes are suffused by an intensity that seems almost to be a quality of the light and air as they play across Ms. Chemla’s watchful, sometimes inscrutable features.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
67
May 5, 2017
Chemla has an expressive face and she’s photographed lovingly, in a way that would probably have caught the attentions of the great French Impressionists, but ultimately she is more of a sculptural presence than a fully fleshed-out protagonist.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 19, 2018
Don’t expect Austen-style humour, though: ultimately, you may be frustrated by a narrative that punishes its pleasant protagonist so thoroughly. But credit to Brizé and crew for an impressive piece of filmmaking with a refreshingly contemporary approach.
By Anna Smith FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 29, 2016
A Woman's Life is a modest chamber piece, a series of sketches revealing a life of quiet desperation, which eschews melodrama and, for the most part, platitudes but exhibits great tenderness and sensitivity.
By John Bleasdale FULL REVIEW
50
May 3, 2017
Mostly, though, A Woman’s Life frustrates because it’s neither entertaining nor illuminating to watch a character passively absorb constant misery.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW

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Production Company TS Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Versus Production, F Comme Film, CN5 Productions, Canal+, France Télévisions, Ciné+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Région Haute-Normandie, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Angoa-Agicoa, Indéfilms 4, Eurimages, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Inver Invest, VOO, BE TV
Release Date May 5, 2017
Duration 1 h 59 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.womanslife.jp/
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Awards

Lumiere Awards, France
• 4 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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