Story of Women

Une affaire de femmes

Isabelle Huppert is ferocious as a working-class woman who finds independence in performing illegal abortions under the German occupation, in one of the great performances of her career.

  • Director

    Claude Chabrol

  • With

    Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Nils Tavernier

  • France 1988. 108min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    15

  • English subtitles

During the German occupation, a working-class woman performs illegal abortions and achieves, for the first time, something resembling financial independence and self-determination. Isabelle Huppert is ferocious in one of her finest performances. It’s a film of controlled fury – an indictment not of its protagonist’s actions but of the state that will ultimately use them as a pretext to destroy her.

Contains themes of abortion, domestic violence or abuse and graphic violence or injury.