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Surprisingly, the trattoria prospers, bringing unexpected fringe benefits. Signoret finds that she can still feel prudish about free love with a ne'er-do-well used-car salesman (Marcello Mastroianni). A neurotic colleague (Emmanuelle Riva) brings her son home to live for the first time. Another girl (Gina Rovere) meets a local construction man willing to help her build a new life. Then, inescapably, the past looms up to destroy all hope for a better future...
JUDY: Consider Helene, portrayed at least with warmth and flexibility by Delphine Seyrig. Unlike Emmanuelle Riva--the Woman in Hiroshima, Jake--Miss Seyrig speaks not only to the audience but to the other characters on the screen as well. Our viewpoint never manages to penetrate the inscrutable consciousness...
Francois Mauriac adapted his Nobel-prize winning book, and Georges Franju--an allegedly fast rising young artist--directed two talented performers, Emmanuele Riva (of Hiroshima Mon Amour) as Therese, and Philippe Noiret (of Zazie) as Therese's husband, Bernard. It's hard to believe that such talent could belch up such obvious junk...
...beautiful but bookish adaptation of Francois Mauriac's 1927 novel owes a lot to the pellucid performance of Emmanuèle Riva (star of Hiroshima, Mon Amour) as a bored young provincial wife who tries to do away with her husband...
...This adaptation of François Mauriac's 1927 novel about a woman who poisons her husband because he is so thoroughly provincial offers visual beauty, literate dialogue, and a truly stunning performance by Emmanuèle Riva, heroine of Hiroshima, Man Amour...