Gentle Woman 1969

She pawned her last possession, a gold cross. He was shocked by her beauty and gave her more money, but she refused to take it. The beauty and the shop owner, one cherishes the soul and the other is greedy for material things. A mismatched marriage, the outcome is known at the beginning: she trades death for freedom. What follows is a first-person story told by the owner of the hotel, who is trying in vain to find the reason for his wife's suicide. The audience is in a fog, and he justifies his story, making the story more tense. Her mystery is Bresson's blank space, the audience's interpretation space. The director likes to turn actors into "models." This time he hired a real model, Du Minni Sander, not because of her beauty, but because of her voice. But Sander's quietness has a powerful appeal. Bresson's first color film adds a sense of cruelty to tenderness.