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A Woman's Life offers absorbing, powerfully acted period drama that's further elevated by brilliant work from director/co-writer Stéphane Brizé.
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What saves this from being a dull downer is the lightness of touch in the direction and performances, the spontaneity of the dialogue as characters discuss dress designs or household expenditure. Jan 12, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
What saves this from being a dull downer is the lightness of touch in the direction and performances, the spontaneity of the dialogue as characters discuss dress designs or household expenditure.
Leslie Felperin
A respectful adaptation, yet one that fails to translate the intensity of Maupassant's writing. Jan 12, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A respectful adaptation, yet one that fails to translate the intensity of Maupassant's writing.
Manuela Lazic
The director Stéphane Brizé does some lovely work with non-chronological flashbacks and flash-forwards, but the deadening sense that we know exactly where this is going (hint: not up) is never quite undone. Jan 11, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The director Stéphane Brizé does some lovely work with non-chronological flashbacks and flash-forwards, but the deadening sense that we know exactly where this is going (hint: not up) is never quite undone.
Kevin Maher
Credit to Stéphane Brizé for an impressive piece of filmmaking with a refreshingly contemporary approach. Jan 10, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Credit to Stéphane Brizé for an impressive piece of filmmaking with a refreshingly contemporary approach.
Anna Smith
Guy de Maupassant's first novel, about a trusting French noblewoman who follows her husband and then her grown son into financial ruin, gets a slow, sensual, impressionistic treatment from director Stéphane Brizé. Jun 15, 2017 | Full Review…
Guy de Maupassant's first novel, about a trusting French noblewoman who follows her husband and then her grown son into financial ruin, gets a slow, sensual, impressionistic treatment from director Stéphane Brizé.
J. R. Jones
We warm to Jeanne's plight not because it is so relatable or familiar, but rather because every turn feels so vivid and so enveloping. May 11, 2017 | Full Review…
We warm to Jeanne's plight not because it is so relatable or familiar, but rather because every turn feels so vivid and so enveloping.
Justin Chang
A textured film that may just be too dour for its own good. Feb 19, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A textured film that may just be too dour for its own good.
Cathy Brennan
Perhaps not literally, but in Stephane Brize's depressing A Woman's Life, there are fleeting moments here and there of feeling and situations that all women can emphasize with. Nov 7, 2018 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Perhaps not literally, but in Stephane Brize's depressing A Woman's Life, there are fleeting moments here and there of feeling and situations that all women can emphasize with.
Michelle Kisner
The significance of some recurring images...only crystalizes as events unfold. The accumulated detail of the period recreation feels uncomfortably authentic. Aug 27, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The significance of some recurring images...only crystalizes as events unfold. The accumulated detail of the period recreation feels uncomfortably authentic.
Alexa Dalby
The narrative is suffused with subtle yet piquant moral commentary. Aug 7, 2018
The narrative is suffused with subtle yet piquant moral commentary.
Ela Bittencourt
A Woman's Life poses an interesting question: can a film be forgiven for being dreary and plodding if it is trying to accurately depict an existence defined by these adjectives? Jan 22, 2018 | Full Review…
A Woman's Life poses an interesting question: can a film be forgiven for being dreary and plodding if it is trying to accurately depict an existence defined by these adjectives?
Stephen Porzio
It is an ambitious production but requires a fair amount of patience. Jan 15, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It is an ambitious production but requires a fair amount of patience.
Allan Hunter
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