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
  • 3 July 2013 (2013-07-03) (France and Belgium)
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, following the death of their mother, as they go through her belongings at her house, the daughters Anne (Sylvie Testud) and Tania (Julie Ferrier) come across a family secret. The sister Anne, who is a writer, is particularly intrigued by the secrets of the family's past, and of which neither sister knows much about. As they go through the mother Léna's mementos, further family secrets unravel of an uncle on their father's side that has been largely forgotten, including suspicions that her late mother once had a love affair with this brother-in-law who had come to stay with Anne's parents. The plot is the narrative that unfolds as she tries to tie the pieces together, unraveling more in the process. The movie follows some similar plotlines and that Kurys has used before in the movie "Entre Nous." Both movies entail a Jewish man offering a girl marriage that he is attracted to in a concentration camp. In the case of this movie, she accepts the offer in order to gain her freedom from the camp and avoid almost certain death. In both movies, he carries his new wife and leads a troup of escapees over the Alps in the snow to safety. That is the end of the parallel. The couple, Michel (Benoît Magimel) and Léna (Mélanie Thierry), as Russian emigres following World War II, both settle in Lyon, where the husband, who is an ardent Communist, becomes a tailor with his own clothing shop and Léna is a housewife. They eventually get French citizenship and have a child, Tania. After a few years of their settlement there, his brother, Jean (Nicolas Duvauchelle), who is long believed dead along with Michel's parents, shows up at the door unannounced. He ends up staying with them, while working in Michel's shop, and a male friend of Jean's, Sacha (Clément Sibony), joins them in their household, along the way. As Anne uncovers more details of the story through her mother's belongings, Léna's discontent as a simple housewife becomes exposed along with the real roles and purpose that Michel's brother, Jean, and his friend, Sacha, have for being in Lyon. As the story progresses covering a time span from World War II until the 1980s, the father, Michel, becomes gravely ill, further heightening Anne's need to come to a conclusive understanding of what happened to her family and between her parents. To add more of a description would undoubtedly spoil the remainder of the plot.

Cast

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

  1. ↑ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=13624
  2. ↑ "Diane Kurys directs Pour une femme". cineuropa.org. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
  3. ↑ "Pour une femme". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
  4. ↑ "Pour une Femme". cinenews.be. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
  5. ↑ van Hoeij, Boyd (2013-07-12). "For a Woman (Pour une femme): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
  6. ↑ jewishjournal.com,4 June 2014

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