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The Lost Woman

1942 · 95 min

A somber wartime melodrama whose tangled loves and coincidences weigh on you like a slow sigh.

Directed by
Jean Choux
Genres
Drama
Starring
Renée Saint-Cyr, Jean Murat, Jean Galland
Overview
Marie, a young bourgeois and Jean, a cargo sailor have an affair, she becomes pregnant but he has to go back to the sea. Marie leaves for Paris where she meets Pierre and marries him. War breaks out, Jean and Pierre will befriend each other on the front.

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Directed by
Jean Choux
Genres
Drama
Starring
Renée Saint-Cyr, Jean Murat, Jean Galland
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • betrayal
  • war
  • family
  • fate
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
  • military
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance6
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Jean Choux
Starring
Renée Saint-Cyr, Jean Murat, Jean Galland, Roger Duchesne, Marguerite Pierry, Pierre Labry, Lise Donat, Frédéric Mariotti
Runtime
95 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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