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Madame Bovary is a 1991 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the 1857 novel Madame Bovary by French author Gustave Flaubert.. Set in Normandy in the 1850s, the film follows the story of Emma Bovary, an attractive young woman full of romantic notions, whose marriage to an unexciting country doctor leads her to adulterous affairs and tragedy.
Story of Women (French: Une affaire de femmes) is a 1988 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol, based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, guillotined on 30 July 1943 for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area, and the 1986 book Une affaire de femmes by Francis Szpiner.
Phyllis and Aristotle, a fictional tale written in the 13th century, as depicted by artist Giovanni Buonconsiglio in the early 1500s. A dominatrix (/ ˌ d ɒ m ɪ ˈ n eɪ t r ɪ k s / DOM-in-AY-triks; pl. dominatrixes or dominatrices / ˌ d ɒ m ɪ ˈ n eɪ t r ɪ s iː z, ˌ d ɒ m ɪ n ə ˈ t r aɪ s iː z / DOM-in-AY-triss-eez, DOM-in-ə-TRY-seez), or domme, is a woman who takes the ...
From Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller “Babygirl,” to a book of sexual fantasies edited by Gillian Anderson, this was the year the female sex drive took the wheel in popular culture.
The Woman in the Fifth (French title La femme du Vème) is a 2011 French-British-Polish drama film directed and written by Paweł Pawlikowski.Adapted from Douglas Kennedy's 2007 novel of the same name, the film centers on a divorced American writer (Ethan Hawke) who moves to Paris to be closer to his young daughter.
The film highlights the unity of Emma, Eloisa and Clara through their shared condition as women in a rights-denying world, and this despite them being very different people.
The Woman King is a 2022 American historical action-adventure film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries. Set in the 1820s, the film stars Viola Davis as a general who trains the next generation of warriors to fight their enemies.
It tells a fictional story based on the life of historical Spanish illustrator Josep Bartoli. The festival operated as a hybrid event mixing in-person and online activities and showcased 194 titles.