The main character is a woman trapped in the long stifling marriage in a boring province. She has an affair with a traveling photographer, follows him to Paris, and then has a series of unsatisfactory but interesting relationships, one of which is with a woman.
Acting
Catherine Jourdan's face does all the escaping words can't.
Cinematography
Provincial gray vs. Parisian glow—visual metaphor on a budget.
Director
Michel Mardore
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the final gasp of French New Wave influence, this film captures women questioning marriage just as divorce laws were liberalizing in France.
Geraldine Chaplin's Marie-des-Anges was reportedly written as male until Chaplin auditioned and Mardore rewrote the role overnight.
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