Marie Cardinal

Les Mots pour le dire (1983)

A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband w ...

Mouchette (1967)

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man. ...

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills. ...

Écouter la mer (2024)

The Key Is in the Door (1978)

Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is fou ...