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A Woman’s Life (12A)

Dir. Stéphane Brizé, France, Belgium, 119min, 2016, subtitled

Showing times:

• Fri 19 Jan: 2.30pm & 7.30pm
• Sat 20 Jan: 6.30pm
• Sun 21 Jan: 5pm

Starring: Judith Chelma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Arlaud

Based on Guy de Maupassant’s novel ‘Une Vie’, A Woman’s Life is a beautiful and moving tale of tormented love embedded in the restrictive social and moral codes of marriage and family in 19^th Century Normandy.

Upon finishing her school in a convent, young aristocrat Jeanne marries local Viscount Julien de Lamare, who soon reveals himself to be a miserly and unfaithful husband. As she navigates her new circumstances and the joys and burdens of motherhood, Jeanne’s rosy illusions about her privileged world are slowly stripped away.

‘There could never be too many movies like this one’
THE NEW YORK TIMES

F-RATING

F-Rating is a new rating for films directed by women, written by women and/or with significant female characters on screen, in their own right. Find out more here >>

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