Story of Women (Une Affaire de Gemmes) (1988)

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Claude Chabrol tends to be rather overlooked but he was actually part of the French wave, just like the giants Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, and even though he never had the same amount of success abroad, he was quite heralded in France during a career which went over more than 6 decades and he made more than 50 movies in the process. To be honest, I haven’t seen many of his movies (at ... read more

This drama is based on the true story of Marie-Louise Girard, a French woman put to death for performing unlawful abortions -- an occupation she stumbles into when a friend asks for her assistance in ending a pregnancy. More a sensible businesswoman than a champion of women's rights, Girard finds this practicality extends to the bedroom as well, as she sleeps with a colleague to gain some sexual satisfaction of her own.