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A depressed truck driver meets a suicidal widow. French cinema said 'let them trauma-bond.'
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IMDb
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Audience Score
70
Google
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Womanlight (1979)

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Overview

Drama

Having both suffered extreme losses, two disparate souls try to form a relationship for consolation rather than romance.

Flag of FRFRFrench
Content warning

Standout Aspects

Acting

Montand and Schneider at their most emotionally dismantled.

Direction

Costa-Gavras trades political thrillers for devastating domestic minimalism.

Best for:Solo: When you want to feel things alone in a dark room.·Streaming: Not theatrical—too quiet, too sad, too 1979.
Heads up:Emotional: Child death, suicide ideation, and prolonged emotional devastation.
Costa-Gavras

Director

Costa-Gavras

ReleasedAug 29, 1979
Runtime1h 38m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Paceslow
Intensitymedium
Tonedark
Feelheavy
Les Films Corona
Les Films Gibé

Top Cast

Yves Montand

Yves Montand

Michel Follin

Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider

Lydia Tovalski

Romolo Valli

Romolo Valli

Galba

Lila Kedrova

Lila Kedrova

Sonia Tovalski

Heinz Bennent

Heinz Bennent

Georges

Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni

Bartender at Clapsy's

Dieter Schidor

Dieter Schidor

Sven Svensson

Catherine Allégret

Catherine Allégret

Prostitute

François Perrot

François Perrot

Alain Tovalski

Daniel Mesguich

Daniel Mesguich

Commissioner Curbec

Gabriel Jabbour

Gabriel Jabbour

Sacha

Hans Verner

Hans Verner

Klaus, ambassador

Jean-Claude Bouillaud

Jean-Claude Bouillaud

Airline pilot

Eliane Borras

Eliane Borras

Airport employee

Gabriel Dussurget

Gabriel Dussurget

Director of lyric theaters

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Deep Dive

Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Trivia

Romy Schneider was reportedly deeply depressed during filming; her performance's rawness may not have been entirely acting. She died three years later.

Cultural

This was Costa-Gavras's deliberate pivot from political thrillers (Z, Missing) to intimate drama—critics mostly hated it, audiences stayed home.

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