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      Une Femme Francaise

      1995 1h 40m Drama List
      Reviews 50% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A woman's (Emmanuelle Béart) extramarital dalliances continue even after her husband (Daniel Auteuil) returns from World War II. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member <i>"Men declare wars, men make peace. All we do is wait around and keep quiet. That's why we go crazy. They just don't realize..."</i> Seemingly personal film from Regis Wargnier that leaves the audience in the cold about the characters and also bites off too much in attempting a time-and-globe-spanning drama that shifts from Berlin, Paris, Damascus, Indochina, Nancy, and Algeria across 1939 to the 1950's in just 90+ minutes. We don't learn much of anything about this particular French woman Jeanne (Emmanuelle Beart) except that she is powerless to control her rampaging cooch each time her husband Louis (Daniel Auteuil) is dispatched by the military to another part of the globe. I mean, she doesn't even try! The production design for a war-torn 1944 Berlin, although limited in screen presentation, is quite spectacular, and the ravishing Beart gives mostly a very good performance - it's easy to see why so many men fell at Jeanne's feet as she's the most gorgeous creature on the planet. She has a memorably spirited dance (fueled by the liquid kind of spirits) in a red dress that reminded me of Anita Ekberg in <i>La Dolce Vita</i>. Auteuil could have been replaced by a statue for most of the first half but finally comes alive once the family divide becomes too wide to ignore. Watchable but unremarkable drama beyond Beart's beauty. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Could/Should be so much better than this. The director was so busy at story telling than detailed characters (especially the core character- Jeanne- The French Woman!) description. As a consequence, everything just turned out to be so superficial, in addition to its disjointed narrative. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A woman's (Emmanuelle Béart) extramarital dalliances continue even after her husband (Daniel Auteuil) returns from World War II.
      Director
      Régis Wargnier
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      French (France)
      Runtime
      1h 40m
      Sound Mix
      Surround