Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Maladie D'Amour

Barbara Glowczewska 1977 France Experimental color 10min French
Two hospital doctors, Raoul and Clément, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over.
Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up a practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?

Director

Barbara Glowczewska

Born in 1956 in Warsaw. An ethnologist. Made a number of films in Paris in 1976-77, sometimes accompanied by live performances which highlighted the body.