See this film: Une Femme Douce @ the HFA [part of the Robert Bresson retrospective]

The Robert Bresson retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive continues with Une Femme Douce (1969), a film which, along with Bresson's Mouchette, Au hasard Balthazar, The Trial of Joan of Arc, and others, demonstrates the great auteur's empathy with the suffering of women and his austere acknowledgment of their dignity and strength. An adaptation of a Dostoevsky short story, the film stars the exquisite Dominique Sanda in the title role of the self-sacrificing wife of a brutish pawnbroker. The Archive is in the Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge | Monday, January 6 @ 7 pm | $9; $7 students, seniors  | 617.495.4700 or hcl.harvard.edu/hfa.