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French Provincial (1975)
Director André Téchiné brings his usual obsessions -- including a preoccupation with the fortunes of the bourgeoisie -- to this episodic drama, which serves as a thinly-veiled portrait of France's economic peaks and valleys from the 1930s through the 1970s. Jeanne Moreau stars as Berthe Pedret, a simple laundry woman who marries Hector (Michael Auclair), son of a wealthy, upper class, Spanish immigrant family that owns a successful farm machinery factory. Through a series of vignettes, Techine depicts the passage of years, during which the ambitious working class woman blooms through several bold moves, such as negotiating a workers' strike settlement and using her alliance with the war-time French Resistance movement to increase the enterprise's prestige.
Keywords: imdb.1930s,
imdb.1940s,
imdb.1970s,
imdb.france,
imdb.pun-in-title,
imdb.country-in-title,
imdb.wedding-party + 25 more,
imdb.reference-to-greta-garbo,
imdb.movie-theater,
imdb.bourgeoisie,
imdb.class-differences,
imdb.working-class,
imdb.embroidery,
imdb.laundry-woman,
imdb.laundry,
imdb.speaking-aloud-to-oneself,
imdb.extramarital-affair,
imdb.mother-disapproves-of-girlfriend,
imdb.family-relationships,
imdb.family-owned-industry,
imdb.spanish-immigrant,
imdb.the-internationale,
imdb.piano-playing,
imdb.unhappy-marriage,
imdb.anti-communism,
imdb.world-war-two-in-france,
imdb.strike,
imdb.reference-to-charles-de-gaulle,
imdb.post-industrialisation,
imdb.french-resistance,
imdb.son,
aspectratio.1-66-1
Production companies: Stéphan Films,
Renn Productions,
Belstar Productions,
Simar Films,
Buffalo Films
Runtime: 90 min.
Released: Sept. 3, 1975
Status: Released
Certification: NR / 11+
