The Love of a Woman (French: L'amour d'une femme, Italian: L'amore di una donna) is a 1953 French-Italian drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Micheline Presle, Massimo Girotti and Gaby Morlay.The A to Z of French Cinema p.194 It was Grémillon's final feature film as director, although he made a handful of documentaries and short films.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Clavel with costumes by Pierre Balmain. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location on the Île d'Ouessant off Finistère.
Synopsis A young female doctor settles in a village on an island off the coast of Brittany, where she engages in a relationship with an engineer working on a project on the island.
Main cast Micheline Presle as Dr. Marie Prieur Massimo Girotti as André Lorenzi Gaby Morlay as Germaine Leblanc Paolo Stoppa as Le curé Marc Cassot as Marcel Marius David as Lulu, l'adjoint d'André Yvette Etiévant as Fernande de Malgorny Roland Lesaffre as Yves Robert Naly as Dr. Morel Madeleine Geoffroy as Isabelle Morel
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Bibliography Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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