La fille seule (1995)

English title: A Single Girl.

Valérie is pregnant of her boyfriend. She tells it to him on the same day she starts on her job as chambermaid in a hotel.

A film in two acts set in different times, each narrated in real time. It's a virtuosic feat, no doubt, which will please form-freaks. The film strays from strict psychological realism in a more noticeable way on some stretches of dialogue, but nothing so blatant as to be more than a matter of opinion. Written by two males, one of whom directed it, it conveys an image of a woman which some might call modern, and others might ask which parameters make her so, whether fictive or sociological.

Rating: 56