Une femme douce (LE)

Une femme douce

From the balcony of her Parisian apartment, a young woman (Dominique Sanda, The Conformist) jumps to her death. Her body is moved to the bed that she shared with her husband Luc (Guy Frangin), a pawnbroker she met at a time of need. Through a series of flashbacks, Luc reflects on their marriage and the events that may have led to her suicide. With his first colour film, director Robert Bresson (Pickpocket) continues his career-long fascination with the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in this striking chamber drama about a crumbling marriage. Anchored by a starmaking turn from the then-unknown Dominique Sanda, Une femme douce is a masterful and timeless meditation on male-female relationships. 

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES

• High-Definition digital transfer
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• New audio commentary by Michael Brooke (2025)
• Over Her Dead Body - a visual essay by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin (2025)
• Archival interview with Robert Bresson (1969)
• Archival interview with Dominique Sanda (1987)
• Image gallery
• New English subtitle translation
• Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters by Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová and Chica
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Alex Barrett and an archival interview with Robert Bresson 
  
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

 

Press:

“Une femme douce belongs among the greater Bresson films” - Roger Greenspun, The New York Times

"Bresson crafts a sublime, mysterious meditation on the struggle of the spirit in a world that values only what can be bought and sold" - Harvard Film Archive

★★★★★ - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian