ComedyRomanceDrama

Love and the Frenchwoman

The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.

Release Date : 1960-09-16

Language :French

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Les Films Metzger et WoogParis Élysée FilmUnidex

Production Country : France

Alternative Titles : Love and the Frenchwoman

Cast

Character Name : Mme Bazouche, la concierge (segment "L'Enfance")

Original Name : Jacqueline Porel

Gender : Female

Character Name : Le professeur Dufieux (segment "L'Enfance")

Original Name : Darry Cowl

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lulu, locataire et travailleuse du trottoir (segment "L'Enfance")

Original Name : Micheline Dax

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mme Tronche, une locataire (segment "L'Enfance")

Original Name : Paulette Dubost

Gender : Female

Character Name : Victor, l'amoureux d'une locataire (segment "L'Enfance")

Original Name : Jacques Duby

Gender : Male

Character Name : M. Bazouche, agent de police (segment "L'Enfance")

Original Name : Pierre-Jean Vaillard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Le colonel Chappe, un locataire (segment "L'Enfance")

Original Name : Noël Roquevert

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gisèle, la petite fille (segment "L'Enfance")

Original Name : Marline Lambert

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jaja, le petit garçon (segment "L'Enfance")

Original Name : Bibi Morat

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment "L'Enfance")

Original Name : Pierre Paulet

Gender : Male

Character Name : Édouard, le père de Bichette (segment "L'Adolescence")

Original Name : Pierre Mondy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lucienne, la mère de Bichette (segment "L'Adolescence")

Original Name : Sophie Desmarets

Gender : Female

Character Name : Le « Prince charmant » toutes versions (segment "L'Adolescence")

Original Name : Roger Pierre

Gender : Male

Character Name : Le narrateur (voice) (segment "L'Adolescence")

Original Name : Jean Desailly

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bichette (segment "L'Adolescence")

Original Name : Annie Sinigalia

Gender : Female

Character Name : L'amie de Lucienne (segment "L'Adolescence")

Original Name : Simone Paris

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jacques (segment "L'Adolescence")

Original Name : François Nocher

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment "L'Adolescence")

Original Name : Pierre-Louis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ginette (segment "La Virginité")

Original Name : Valérie Lagrange

Gender : Female

Character Name : François (segment "La Virginité")

Original Name : Pierre Michaël

Gender : Male

Character Name : La mère de Ginette (segment "La Virginité")

Original Name : Nicole Chollet

Gender : Female

Character Name : L'amie de Ginette (segment "La Virginité")

Original Name : Marie-Thérèse Orain

Gender : Female

Character Name : Le père de Ginette (segment "La Virginité")

Original Name : Paul Bonifas

Gender : Male

Character Name : L'employé de bureau (segment "La Virginité")

Original Name : Pascal Mazzotti

Gender : Male

Character Name : L'amie de Ginette (segment "La Virginité")

Original Name : Joëlle Latour

Gender : Female

Character Name : Le patron de Ginette (segment "La Virginité")

Original Name : Charles Bouillaud

Gender : Male

Character Name : Line, la jeune mariée (segment "Le Mariage")

Original Name : Marie-José Nat

Gender : Female

Character Name : Charles, le jeune marié (segment "Le Mariage")

Original Name : Claude Rich

Gender : Male

Character Name : Le dragueur à moustache (segment "Le Mariage")

Original Name : Yves Robert

Gender : Male

Character Name : Le contôleur du train (segment "Le Mariage")

Original Name : Jacques Marin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Un cheminot (segment "Le Mariage")

Original Name : Jacques Fabri

Gender : Male

Character Name : Le curé dans le train (segment "Le Mariage")

Original Name : Albert Michel

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment "Le Mariage")

Original Name : Alain Bouvette

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jean-Claude Perret, publicitaire et mari cocu (segment "L'Adultère")

Original Name : Paul Meurisse

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nicole Perret, l'épouse frivole (segment "L'Adultère")

Original Name : Dany Robin

Gender : Female

Character Name : Gilles, l'amant (segment "L'Adultère")

Original Name : Jean-Paul Belmondo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Berton-Marsact, fabriquant de savons (segment "L'Adultère")

Original Name : Claude Piéplu

Gender : Male

Character Name : La jumelle, un mannequin de publicité (segment "L'Adultère")

Original Name : Alice Kessler

Gender : Female

Character Name : L'autre jumelle, un mannequin de publicité (segment "L'Adultère")

Original Name : Ellen Kessler

Gender : Female

Character Name : Michel, le mari (segment "Le Divorce")

Original Name : François Périer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Danielle, l'épouse (segment "Le Divorce")

Original Name : Annie Girardot

Gender : Female

Character Name : Me Marcerou, avocat et ami du couple (segment "Le Divorce")

Original Name : Francis Blanche

Gender : Male

Character Name : L'avocat de Michel (segment "Le Divorce"))

Original Name : Jean Poiret

Gender : Male

Character Name : L'avocat de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")

Original Name : Michel Serrault

Gender : Male

Character Name : La mère de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")

Original Name : Denise Grey

Gender : Female

Character Name : Le juge, conciliateur (segment "Le Divorce")

Original Name : Georges Chamarat

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ami de Michel (segment "Le Divorce")

Original Name : Alfred Adam

Gender : Male

Character Name : Eliane Girard (segment "La Femme seule")

Original Name : Martine Carol

Gender : Female

Character Name : M. Désiré / Frederic Leroy (segment "La Femme seule")

Original Name : Robert Lamoureux

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gilberte Dumas, secrétaire de direction (segment "La Femme seule")

Original Name : Silvia Monfort

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mlle Mangebois, la vieille dame riche (segment "La Femme seule")

Original Name : Suzanne Nivette

Gender : Male

Character Name : L'avocate de M. Désiré (segment "La Femme seule")

Original Name : Simone Renant

Gender : Female

Character Name : Le président du tribunal (segment "La Femme seule")

Original Name : Paul Villé

Gender : Male

Character Name : Un spectateur de la partie de ping-pong (segment "La Femme seule")

Original Name : Robert Rollis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Narrateur principal (voice)

Original Name : Jacques Bernard

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment "L'Enfance") (uncredited)

Original Name : Brigitte Barbier

Gender : Female

Reviews

Sigmund Kühßeir

@VinceBass

2024-01-14

**Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)** In France in 1960, seven sketches on the stages of a woman's love life. --- **1 - Childhood** by _Henri Decoin_ Gisèle Bazouche, aged 9, asks her parents "how children come". Unsure of what to tell her, they, the concierges of a Paris apartment building, enlist the help of several tenants: a prostitute, a colonel and a teacher. --- **2 - Adolescence** by _Jean Delannoy_ Bichette Martin experiences her first adolescent emotions. Shy in front of the family doctor, she's much less so on the beach. Her parents don't know what to do to stop her kissing boys. At the same time, she's dreaming of Prince Charming, in the most modern of forms. --- **3 - Virginity** by _Michel Boisrond_ Young Ginette is engaged to François. François is annoyed, because Ginette, still a virgin, wants to wait until she's married to make a move. The lovebirds finally decide to consummate after a night out. --- **4 - Marriage** by _René Clair_ On their honeymoon train, newlyweds Line and Charles start bickering over peccadilloes and become jealous of each other for even the slightest glance or smile exchanged with other passengers. --- **5 - Adultery** by _Henri Verneuil_ Nicole is devastated by her husband Jean-Claude, a man full of himself. She starts flirting with Gilles, a young flirt. Jean-Claude discovers their relationship by chance and puts an end to it, while continuing his discreet adulterous relations... --- **6 - Divorce** by _Christian-Jaque_ Danielle and Michel divorce, promising to stay on good terms. Their lawyers and the family will take it upon themselves to create grievances and turn their relationship into an internal struggle. --- **7 - A Woman Alone** by _Jean-Paul Le Chanois_ A con man, Désiré, uses his seductive talents to fleece three single women. --- The film was a public success at the time, selling 3,056,736 tickets in France. For Jean de Baroncelli, "two are particularly successful: _Marriage_ directed by René Clair, masterfully chiseled, crafted and moving, and _Adultery_ directed by Henri Verneuil, which owes much of its piquancy to the dazzling performances of Paul Meurisse, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Dany Robin". The film was the brainchild of producer Robert Woog and screenwriter Jacques Rémy, who were planning a film on the behavior of French women in love, and for this purpose asked the French Institute of Public Opinion (credited "IFOB" in the film): a survey was conducted among one thousand and fifty young women and men between the ages of 15 and 50 on seven themes: * (1) Childhood and the awakening of sexual curiosity * (2) Adolescence * (3) Virginity to be preserved or not * (4) Marriage * (5) Adultery * (6) Divorce * (7) Loneliness experienced by many women The seven sketches are a cinematic illustration of the seven chapters of this study. That's why the text linking the pictures repeatedly returns to the statistical vision of the subject.