Film Forum

France, 1976
Directed by Jeanne Moreau
Starring Lucia Bosè, Francine Racette, Caroline Cartier, Jeanne Moreau, Keith Carradine
In French with English subtitles
Approx. 102 min. DCP.

“The story of a celebrated actress in mid-career, Sarah Dedieu (Moreau), who’s surrounded by three female friends at a lavish country estate: Julienne (Francine Racette), a busy, and esteemed, but less successful actress; Caroline (Caroline Cartier), a struggling actress; and Laura (Lucia Bosè), a wealthy Italian actress. They swim in Laura’s stone-lined pool, relax in her well-appointed house, recall long-ago adventures while dining in the garden, served by a maid—and the story flashes back to events in Paris a year earlier, when ‘everything changed in less than a week.’”  – Richard Brody, New York Magazine
 

Reviews

“A movie that sneaks up on us, that insinuates itself after we're beginning to have our doubts.”
– Roger Ebert

“Miss Moreau's own penetrating vision of what it means to be a woman”
– Richard Eder, The New York Times