Just a year later, Mr. Brizé, 49, has a new movie for entry in the Venice International Film Festival’s main competition. “Une Vie,” (A Woman’s Life) based on the 1883 Guy de Maupassant novel of the same name, is on first appearances, a very different kind of film. “La loi du marché” is set in the present, with its central figure a badly paid security guard trying to make ends meet. “Une Vie” begins in rural Normandy of 1819, with an innocent young girl, Jeanne, who has just returned from a convent education to live with her sweet, gentle parents. Unlike the novel, the film of “Une Vie” shows everything from Jeanne’s point of view.

Source: International New York Times August 31, 2016 09:22 UTC