La Femme publique
1984 Drama   
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Starring: Valérie Kaprisky, Francis Huster, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Bauchau, Giselle Pascal
 
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...

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



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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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