L'amour d'une femme

Em honra dos 100 anos completados hoje por Micheline Presle. Surpreendentemente à frente de seu tempo (ou não, Beauvoir já tinha publicado O segundo sexo há alguns anos), o filme vai além disso na obsessão eterna de Grémillon pelo farol arquetípico da solitude e é mais um exemplar dos medalhões clássicos do cinema francês em que Presle coloca toda sua vida na tela. Box Versátil Melodrama no Cinema.

One of those movies you wish you could walk into.

that woman's dilemma - live alone in a shithole or marry an asshole!

This early feminist movie about a single female doctor who has to chose between her career and the man she loves, was way ahead of its time in its progressive message. That the movie stil engages now, is a testament to Grémillon's directing and Presle‘s acting skills. This is a very ambigious drama in which we both feel sad for the loss of her love, but also glad for her future happinesses. The movie is bolstered by being shot mostly on location, showing life on a Breton island in the 50s.