Word: sautet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SIMPLE STORY Directed by Claude Sautet Screenplay by Claude Sautet and Jean-Loup Dabadie
...boring failure. It ends with her carrying to term a child she has conceived with her former husband, who is not boring and is successful. Just why she left him in the first place, or took up with the replacement she now finds odious, is left unclear. Instead, Director Sautet cuts away to subplots involving the heroine's wide circle of female friends. The point seems to be that men are not much good and that a woman is likely to find greater happiness, or anyway serenity, with her own kind. Still, everyone, male and female, is presented...