Pour une femme
| Pour une femme | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Diane Kurys |
| Produced by | Jérémie Chevret |
| Written by | Diane Kurys |
| Starring |
Benoît Magimel Mélanie Thierry Nicolas Duvauchelle |
| Music by | Armand Amar |
| Cinematography | Gilles Henry |
| Edited by | Sylvie Gadmer |
| Distributed by | EuropaCorp |
Release dates |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $7,600,000 |
| Box office | $1,456,050 [1] |
Pour une femme (For a Woman) is a 2013 French drama film directed by Diane Kurys.[2][3][4]
Plot
During the 1980s Anne finds out there is a family secret. She discovers that her late mother once had a love affair with her brother-in-law. The movie follows a similar plot that Kurys has used before in the movie "Entre Nous." Both movies have a Jewish man offering a girl marriage he is attracted to in a concentration camp. She accepts in order to gain her freedom. In both movies he carries his new wife over the Alps in the snow to safety. In this last movie he becomes a tailor whereas in the first movie he becomes a mechanic. Both movies also have the similar theme of infidelity on the wife's part as both women deceive their husband.
Cast
- Benoît Magimel as Michel
- Mélanie Thierry as Lena
- Nicolas Duvauchelle as Jean
- Sylvie Testud as Anne
- Denis Podalydès as Maurice
- Julie Ferrier as Tania
- Clotilde Hesme as Madeleine
- Clément Sibony as Sacha
Reception
The Hollywood Reporter's reviewer Boyd van Hoeij admitted the film was "handsomely put together" and found that Armand Amar's film score supported the transitions between temporal levels. [5]
Notes
The film had its roots in director Diane Kurys' coming across an old photograph of her father's mysterious brother, Jean, a decade ago. Her father, said Kurys, 'was always very angry with my uncle, and the two men never spoke - there were insinuations that something had happened involving my mother.' Kurys had been told by her mother, when her mother was dying of cancer in the early 1980s, that at her birth Kurys' father did not want to touch her, or talk to her. Since the photograph of her uncle Jean had been from some time in 1947, months before Kurys was born, she wondered whether she could have been the illegitimate child of a liaison between her mother and uncle. The film is Kurys' creative imagining of that possible affair together with real memories of her parents' troubled marriage.[6]
References
- ↑ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=13624
- ↑ "Diane Kurys directs Pour une femme". cineuropa.org. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
- ↑ "Pour une femme". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
- ↑ "Pour une Femme". cinenews.be. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
- ↑ van Hoeij, Boyd (2013-07-12). "For a Woman (Pour une femme): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
- ↑ jewishjournal.com,4 June 2014
External links
- Pour une femme at the Internet Movie Database
- Pour une femme at Rotten Tomatoes
- Official presskit (French)
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