Story of Women

(Une affaire de femmes) Isabelle Huppert is ferocious as a working-class woman who finds independence in performing illegal abortions under the German occupation, in one of the great performances of her career. During the German occupation, a working-class woman performs illegal abortions and achieves, for the first time, something resembling financial independence and self-determination. Isabelle Huppert is ferocious in one of her finest performances. It’s a film of controlled fury – an indictment not of its protagonist’s actions but of the state that will ultimately use them as a pretext to destroy her. Contains themes of abortion, domestic violence or abuse and graphic violence or injury.