Story of Women
DVD cover
Directed by	Claude Chabrol
Produced by	Marin Karmitz
Written by	Colo Tavernier Claude Chabrol Francis Szpiner (book)
Starring	Isabelle Huppert François Cluzet Nils Tavernier
Music by	Matthieu Chabrol
Cinematography	Jean Rabier
Editing by	Monique Fardoulis
Distributed by	MK2 Diffusion (France) New Yorker Films (USA)
Release date(s)	September 15, 1988
Running time	108 mins
Country	France
Language	French

Story of Women (French title: Une affaire de femmes) is a 1988 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. Based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, guillotined on July 30 1943 for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area, and the book by Francis Szpiner. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Selected cast 3 Awards 4 Controversy 5 External links

[edit] Plot

Isabelle Huppert plays a housewife turned abortionist in 1940s Nazi occupied France. She becomes one of the last women to be guillotined in France.

[edit] Selected cast

• Isabelle Huppert as Marie
• François Cluzet as Paul
• Nils Tavernier as Lucien
• Marie Trintignant as Lulu/Lucie
• Lolita Chammah as Mouche #2
• Aurore Gauvin as Mouche #1

[edit] Awards

In 1988, Isabelle Huppert won the Best Actress award at the Valladolid International Film Festival and the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival. In 1989, the film won the Golden Precolumbian Circle at the Bogota Film Festival, the LAFCA Award at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the NBR Award at the National Board of Review, USA and the NYFCC Award at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. In 1990 it won the Sant Jordi Award, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Film and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.

[edit] Controversy

During a screening of the film at the Miramar-Montparnasse cinema in Paris in the autumn of 1988, a tear gas grenade exploded, causing a cinemagoer to suffer a fatal heart attack. The incident was caused by militant Catholics angered by a scene in the film in which Isabelle Huppert as Marie utters a blasphemous version of Hail Mary.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

• Story of Women at the Internet Movie Database
• Story of Women at Allmovie

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