One Life
Une Vie
Schedule
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Dir. Alexandre Astruc, 1958, 86min
Starring Maria Schell, Christian Marquand
Cinema loves a good crumbling-marriage story and Une Vie is a whopper of one. But the difference in this adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s debut 1883 novel is that the basis for matrimony was never reciprocal love. Starry-eyed aristocrat Jeanne (Maria Schell) is so smitten with the fetching yet destitute Julien (Christian Marquand) that it takes many years and a child together to see that the philandering scoundrel was just after her money. The painterly Normandy countryside serves as the backdrop for Alexandre Astruc’s gorgeous and bleak period drama that got a bit unfairly lost among the more audacious French New Wave titles starting to emerge in the late ’50s.
Imported 35mm print courtesy of Institut Français.
Venue
Event Pricing
($3 for Advance Tickets)
*Tickets are free for members on the day of the event when picked up in person at the box office or Haskell Library.
Cinema at L’Alliance New York is made possible by the generous support of BNP Paribas and Air France.
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