Story of Women (Une affaire de femmes)

Acclaimed director Claude Chabrol offers this compelling true story of working-class housewife Marie (Isabelle Huppert), who performs illegal abortions in France during World War II, evading the Nazis and betraying those she loves. Brought to life by Chabrol on actual locations, “Story of Women” is an honest, original, and utterly absorbing film, which won Huppert the award as Best Actress at the 1988 Venice Film Festival.

The New York Times’ Janet Maslin describes the film as “icily haunting, beautifully delineated” and says it offers Huppert “one of her best roles.” She writes that Chabrol “makes a triumphant return to the kind of emblematic crime story that has long attracted him, in films as different as ‘Violette’ (1978) and ‘Le Boucher’ (1971).”