A SIMPLE STORY Directed by Claude Sautet Screenplay by Claude Sautet and Jean-Loup Dabadie
This is another of those French movies whose true subjectno matter what the script saysis eating and drinking. About the only business the actors do while exchanging dialogue is prepare food or consume it. At least everything looks delicious. Yet maybe the reason is that one's mind tends to wander from more important matters, which are related in a style that is both distant and flat.
The film begins with a woman (Romy Schneider) obtaining an abortion, mostly because her lover is a boring failure. It ends...
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