Catalog Num:
FR-E008-0000
Program:
Romance Languages
"Called the ""epitome of the new French woman,"" actress Miou-Miou plays Madeleine, a sculptress whose husband was killed during a student uprising in WWII. Isabelle Huppert plays Lena, a displaced Jew for whom marriage to a stranger offered the only way out of a wartime refugee camp. Madeleine and Lena meet some years after the war. Both are married to ill-suited husbands. Both have families. Trapped in a rut of middle-class complacency, they grow aware the each can offer the other something their men do not provide." Color. Country: France. Subtitled.