Story of Women (1988)
Une affaire de femmes (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Isabelle Huppert	...	Marie
	François Cluzet	...	Paul
	Marie Trintignant	...	Lulu / Lucie
	Nils Tavernier	...	Lucien
	Lolita Chammah	...	Mouche #2
	Aurore Gauvin	...	Mouche #1
	Guillaume Foutrier	...	Pierrot #1
	Nicolas Foutrier	...	Pierrot #2
	Marie Bunel	...	Ginette
	Dominique Blanc	...	Jasmine
	Evelyne Didi	...	Fernande
	Dani	...	Loulou
	François Maistre	...	Le président Lamarre-Coudray
	Vincent Gauthier	...	Me Fillon / Judge Fillon
	Myriam David	...	Rachel

Storyline

During World War II, in occupied France, a woman of limited schooling raises two children in a ratty flat. She is Marie Latour. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from the front, too weak to hold a job. Marie discovers she can make money performing abortions, using a soapy water douche. Many of her clients are knocked up by occupying Germans. She buys better food and clothes, looks for a new flat, and, through an acquaintance who is a prostitute, rents out her bedrooms to hookers during the day. She's indifferent to Paul; his humiliations grow as does her income. She hopes to be a singer. Male Vichy umbrage and moral hypocrisy may upend her. What is she thinking? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>  

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