Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
A woman (María Casares) revenges herself on her bored lover by arranging for him to marry a prostitute.
This transposition of Denis Diderot's story to contemporary Paris creates a provocative and dynamic tension between the often poetic, epigrammatic and melodramatic dialogue by Jean Cocteau and director Bresson's stark, natural and burgeoning austerity.
A "fascinating turning point" (David Thomson) in Bresson's career, it is luminously shot by Philippe Agostini.
