La Femme publique
1984 Drama   
 
Credits
  • Director: Andrzej Zulawski
  • Script: Dominique Garnier, Andrzej Zulawski
  • Photo: Sacha Vierny
  • Music: Alain Wisniak
  • Cast: Valérie Kaprisky (Ethel), Francis Huster (Lucas Kessling), Lambert Wilson (Milan Mliska), Patrick Bauchau (Le père d'Ethel), Giselle Pascal (Gertrude), Roger Dumas (André, le photographe), Diane Delor (Elena Mliska), Jean-Paul Farré (Pierre), Olivier Achard (Le premier assistant réalisateur), Yveline Ailhaud (Rachel)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 113 min
  • Aka: The Public Woman
 
 
 
Summary
Despite her modest background and inexperience, Ethel is determined to become an actress.  She auditions for a part in a film to be directed by Lucas Kesling, a prominent German filmmaker.  Ethel is given a part in the film, but she soon realises that she may not live up to Kesling’s expectations...

Review
In common with many of Andrzej Zulawski’s films, La Femme publique is virtually unwatchable - an artistically self-indulgent morass of muddle lacking any kind of narrative cohesion and looking, for the most part, like a misguided attempt to extort art from tawdry pornography.

© James Travers 2007


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