A Woman in White
MovieTitle | Journal d'une femme en blanc |
User score | 5 |
Release date | Apr 28, 1965 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Claude Autant-Lara |
Production country | France, Italy |
Production companies | Arco Film, S.O.P.A.C., Société Nouvelle des Établissements Gaumont (SNEG) |
Run time | 105 min. |
Claude Sauvage, a tenacious young gynecologist takes a months long internship in a Paris hospital. Between her private life and medical career, she set her doubts and desires in a society where the square and the plight of women remain at that time a secondary issue. The film follows Claude and the staff through the case of some patients while the crucial debate on women's professional ambition, contraception and abortion rights.