A Simple Story

1978 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Romance

9
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 1537 1.5K

pregnancy divorce extramarital affair

Plot summary

A middle-aged woman leaves her partner and drifts back to her ex-husband, while the lives of her middle class friends intersect with her own.

Director

Claude Sautet Photo
Claude Sautet

Top cast

Bruno Cremer Photo
Bruno Cremer as Georges
Blanche Ravalec Photo
Blanche Ravalec as Maggy
Romy Schneider Photo
Romy Schneider as Marie
Jean-François Garreaud Photo
Jean-François Garreaud as Christian
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
893.79 MB
1204*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds ...
1.71 GB
1792*1072
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by eyeseehot

A beautiful movie about the passage into middle age.

I loved this film. It's not really for kids. To appreciate it fully I think you have to be older. It's about the last moment of youth on the edge of the passage into middle age. It's about getting a sense of who you and the people around you really are.Romy Schneider is beautiful and seems to incarnate this quiet but strong woman. In a way this is a woman's picture. It concentrates mainly on the women. The men are weaker, on the whole, but not in the programmatic way of bad "feminist" films. In one scene the women are cooking together, getting into a serious argument, then somebody spills something and they suddenly unite in cleaning it up. That might be an emblem of the movie. Tough things happen, but life goes on.One of the remarkable qualities of this film is the thick sense of reality it gives--of a world of co-workers and friends which you never fully encompass. You're seeing a slice of life, and you feel there's much more life extending out in all directions.The direction is subtle, understated but beautiful compositions and a lovely way of starting with a shot and then moving to another without a cut. Many frames are filled with people, and a sense, again, of thick life surrounding this story. Either I missed it when it came out, or didn't get it and forgot, but this time it was a revelation to me.
Reviewed by norbert-plan-618-715813 7 / 10

Dense, mysterious, Romy Schneider, life

This simple story may not be so simple after all. Romy Schneider navigates between two men, is pregnant or not, is preoccupied with her colleagues at work, and with her friends.Claude Sautet creates little slices of life that reflect the preoccupations of this petite bourgeoisie: worrying about their work, getting together with friends at the country house, having sentimental affairs.The film is really centered on Romy Schneider's character, with all the others gravitating around her. One quality, which may or may not be linked to Romy Schneider's performance, which may or may not be linked to Claude Sautet's intention, is that the viewer is never allowed to guess the motivations or what is going on inside the head of Romy Schneider's character. She never does. She's always a mystery.Claude Sautet uses very little music, and that's a good thing, because the images are already powerful enough.To be seen essentially for Romy Schneider and her character. The rest of the film is moderately interesting and exciting: we feel relatively unconcerned by the vicissitudes of the various characters. Romy Schneider's character often remains a little mysterious, even opaque.Claude Sautet achieves a light-hearted drama, because the vicissitudes of Romy Schneider's character and those who gravitate around her are not those of a dramatic comedy.
Read more IMDb reviews

3 Comments

Be the first to leave a comment