Robert Bresson – Une femme douce AKA A Gentle Woman (1969)

Bresson’s brilliant adaptation of Dostoevsky’s short story (A Gentle Creature) exhibits in its lapidary sequences the political and existential revolt of a young student in Paris. Sharing a theme that can be traced from Bresson’s Mouchette to his fantastic exploration of revolutionary choices in The Devil Probably, Une Femme Douce articulates in its inimitable minimalist mode a range of issues from the ideological options of France post-May ’68 to human relationships. Dominique Sanda is not the conventional, recognizable student revolutionary, but a “gentle” philosopher whose powers of sensitivity and social scrutiny exceed and tease the prosaic, crude disposition of her bourgeois husband. The sequences in the zoo, the museum of natural history and the performance of Hamlet are powerful. On another note, look out for Indian experimental filmmaker Kumar Shahani who was assisting Bresson at this time, sitting diagonally behind Sanda in the sequence at the movie theater.

Robert Bresson - Une Femme Douce [1969].mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 25 min
Size: 	2.23 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1280x720 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 400 kb/s
BPP: 	0.148
Audio
#1:  	French 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 384 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/C4A536EAE142CE5/Robert_Bresson_-_Une_Femme_Douce__1969_.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/3A0915B4BF704DA/Robert_Bresson_-_Une_Femme_Douce__1969_.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:French, English

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