After a woman steps off the balcony of her apartment, plunging to her death, her pawnbroker husband begins a search to find out why. Robert Bresson's first color film, based on the Dostoevsky short story A Gentle Creature (about 40 pages long), explores themes of jealousy, isolation and marital unhappiness, as told in flashbacks and with the director's highly ascetic style. Stars Dominique Sanda (The Conformist, 1900) in her very first film role, Guy Frangin and Jeanne Lobre. In French with English subtitles. Not available on disc or streaming services. Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92%.

"It is an unforgiving film: somber, difficult, like a medieval poem." — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

NR, 88 min., 1969. Closed captions (CC) in English.