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La Veuve Couderc

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NR,1hr 30min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1971
Director:
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Starring:
Alain Delon, Ottavia Piccolo, Simone Signoret  ...more
Synopsis: Simone Signoret plays the title role in this dark melodrama from writer/director Pierre Granier-Deferre. The Widow Couderc is based on a novel by Georges Simenon. Here Signoret (who also starred in Le Chat, an earlier Granier-Deferre adaptation of a Simenon novel) plays a bitterly independent middle-aged widow; she is a farmer who takes in a handsome young drifter, Jean (Alain Delon), who turns out to be recently released from prison. Jean does odd jobs for the woman, who lives with her elderly father-in-law, ... Full Synopsis
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Josh Ralske, AMG Review
Pierre Granier-Deferre's The Widow Couderc is a solid melodrama, with a lot of tension simmering just under the surface. It's greatly enhanced by the strong performances of its two leads, Simone Signoret and Alain Delon. Delon is believable as the tough, potentially dangerous Jean Lavigne, the quiet loner who takes his time sizing up the volatile situation around him, but the film belongs to Signoret ... Full Review
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