Une femme douce is a 1969 film by Robert Bresson. It is dedicated to the wedding life of the pawnbroker and his young wife which ends very unhappily.
Tropes
- Awful Wedded Life: Elle and Luc are too different.
- Driven to Suicide: Elle.
- Downer Beginning: Elle commits suicide.
- Film of the Book: It is an adaptation of the short story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- No Name Given: Elle means "She" in French.
- Whole Episode Flashback: The entire story is told in a flashback.
