Une Histoire Simple (1978)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 107 minuten
Alternative title: A Simple Story
Country:
France / West Germany
Directed by: Claude Sautet
Stars: Romy Schneider, Bruno Cremer and Claude Brasseur
IMDb score:
6,8 (1.564)
Releasedate: 22 November 1978
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Une Histoire Simple plot
Marie (Schneider) is a working woman in her forties who is tired of her boring existence. This leads to her just starting an affair. After a while she stops and aborts the resulting pregnancy. She reflects on the situation and her life in general for a long time.
Actors and actresses
Marie
Georges
Serge
Gabrielle
Esther
Anna
Charles
La mère
Martin
Patrick
Reviews & comments
Movsin
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First and foremost, a film about friendship and helpfulness, especially among women, because Sautet's umpteenth collaboration with Romy Schneider has a strong feminist touch.
For the rest, a film about normal - and sometimes somewhat unusual - things in life, experiences, and opinions that are sometimes shared, but usually differ widely. Des histoires simples, so you might criticize the film for a lack of panache, but Sautet's strongest weapon remains Romy Schneider, at the age of forty and able to carry a full film on her own and someone you really can't get enough of.
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Collins
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The film by director and writer Claude Sautet is about 40-year-old Marie in a story that is as simple as life. About Marie who puts her partner aside, starts a hopeless affair with her ex-husband and has a circle of friends as a refuge. Together with Marie, the viewer embarks on a simple search for satisfaction and stability.
Marie is played by Romy Schneider who is in excellent form. She carries the film, although she is not in the foreground the entire time. Sautet sometimes films her from a distance while other characters come to the fore. Sometimes he films her up close. A touching smile. A dejected look. A passionate plea. Depending on the fate that moves restlessly around her and brings small and large crises to life or reserves moments of happiness for her.
An emancipated woman with responsibilities. Child and work. Without the psychological and physical support of a man. Sautet makes a film that focuses on women and casts the male characters as second-rate figures. Seen in the light of the present, the film is perhaps somewhat reactionary. The women bear responsibility and have a duty of care. The men go where they want. Free from responsibilities and without a sense of duty. It was difficult for me to put myself in their place.
The film was written by Claude Sautet at the request of Romy Schneider who asked him to write a screenplay describing life from a woman's point of view. The emancipated Schneider was tired of films being all about the male vision. Une Histoire Simple is a beautiful film, but also a film that sharply portrays the contrasts between men and women. Interesting, beautiful, moving, but also a bit too simple for my taste.
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