

Six women dump their purses and accidentally expose their entire existences.
2012 French documentary where the interviewer gets 6 seemingly random women to empty their handbags and then asks probing questions to get to their "soul". Simone 33, a model. Ilhem 36, a sports coach. Caroline 33, a curator. Anne-Sophie 29, a press attache. Catherine 43, a teacher. Valentina 23, a student. French with English sub-titles.
Direction
Klein's invasive gentleness extracts gold.
Editing
52 minutes—no fat, all secrets.
Director
Pierre Klein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is peak French documentary ethos: intellectual interrogation disguised as casual chat, purses as Proustian madeleines.
The film accidentally captures 2012's transition moment—physical objects as identity markers just before phones swallowed everything.
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