{"id":98566,"date":"2024-07-07T22:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T05:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=98566"},"modified":"2024-07-08T19:13:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T02:13:56","slug":"femme-douce-une-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=98566","title":{"rendered":"Femme Douce, Une (1969)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;She made me see woman as an instrument of pleasure.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Poster-226x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-98567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Poster-226x300.png 226w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Poster-96x128.png 96w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Poster-204x270.png 204w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Poster.png 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA pawnshop owner (Guy Frangin) reflects back on his troubled marriage with a beautiful young woman (Dominique Sanda) who has just killed herself by jumping out a window.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flashback Films<\/li>\n<li>French Films<\/li>\n<li>Marital Problems<\/li>\n<li>Robert Bresson Films<\/li>\n<li>Suicide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nRobert Bresson&#8217;s ninth of 13 feature-length films was this adaptation of an 1876 short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky called &#8220;A Gentle Creature&#8221;, which has inspired numerous cinematic renderings (though I&#8217;m not sure why). To put it mildly, I&#8217;m not a fan of Bresson (I only have one more of his titles left to review &#8212; not that I&#8217;m counting), so I wouldn&#8217;t have liked this movie anyway; but I don&#8217;t quite see the appeal of the story itself: a pawnbroker lusts after a beautiful young woman without much money, who he believes he can rescue: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gentle-Woman-Sanda.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gentle-Woman-Sanda-1024x568.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-98571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gentle-Woman-Sanda-1024x568.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gentle-Woman-Sanda-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gentle-Woman-Sanda-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gentle-Woman-Sanda-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gentle-Woman-Sanda-487x270.png 487w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gentle-Woman-Sanda-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Gentle-Woman-Sanda.png 1301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and then is surprised when she&#8217;s not too pleased with his overbearing, objectifying approach to her. Maybe this is a common challenge for some men (&#8220;Why isn&#8217;t my wife happy? I give her everything she wants and needs&#8230;&#8221;) but it&#8217;s crystal clear that these individuals don&#8217;t actually relate to one another in any way except sexually. He&#8217;s penny-pinching, she&#8217;s inclined to generosity; he likes jazz, she likes classical music; she looks perpetually miserable, he looks perpetually suspicious and sour. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Suspicious.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Suspicious-1024x569.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-98572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Suspicious-1024x569.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Suspicious-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Suspicious-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Suspicious-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Suspicious-486x270.png 486w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Suspicious-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Suspicious.png 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What could go wrong? Well, as we know from the opening scene, pretty much everything, in the worst possible way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Dead.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Dead-1024x562.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"351\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-98573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Dead-1024x562.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Dead-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Dead-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Dead-768x422.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Dead-492x270.png 492w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Dead.png 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course it doesn&#8217;t help that Bresson has instructed his actors, as usual, to NOT act, rendering them essentially robotic from the get-go. Skip this one unless you&#8217;re a Bresson fan and somehow understand what he&#8217;s going for.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ghislain Cloquet&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Cinematography-Art-Museum.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Cinematography-Art-Museum-1024x565.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"353\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-98574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Cinematography-Art-Museum-1024x565.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Cinematography-Art-Museum-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Cinematography-Art-Museum-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Cinematography-Art-Museum-768x424.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Cinematography-Art-Museum-489x270.png 489w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Femme-Douce-Cinematography-Art-Museum.png 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo. Listed as a film with Historical Importance and a Personal Recommendation in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065152\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/aug\/02\/une-femme-douce-review-robert-bresson\">The Guardian Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?id=x-wjAAAAIBAJ&#038;sjid=K4wDAAAAIBAJ&#038;pg=4516%2C2437283\">Village Voice Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/une-femme-douce\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;She made me see woman as an instrument of pleasure.&#8221; Synopsis: A pawnshop owner (Guy Frangin) reflects back on his troubled marriage with a beautiful young woman (Dominique Sanda) who has just killed herself by jumping out a window. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Flashback Films French Films Marital Problems Robert Bresson Films Suicide Review: Robert Bresson&#8217;s ninth of 13 feature-length films was this adaptation of an 1876 short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky called &#8220;A Gentle Creature&#8221;, which has inspired&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=98566\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98566"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98588,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98566\/revisions\/98588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}