La Maison des femmes on Canal Plus: a strikingly realistic film (review)

Karin Viard, Lætitia Dosch and Eye Haïdara confront violence against women and the pandemic in this drama tinged with humor.

After having enjoyed great success in theaters last spring (nearly 500,000 admissions in France), The Women’s House can be seen this Tuesday evening on Canal Plus and in streaming on MyCanal. Our review:

From her visit to La maison des femmes in Saint-Denis, created in 2016 to welcome vulnerable women and/or victims of violence, Mélisa Godet drew the subject of her first feature film. We follow Diane, Manon, Inès, Awa and their mostly female colleagues as they struggle to offer one a listening ear, another solutions to allow her to regain the dignity and femininity lost since her excision as a child, or a third a housing solution to keep her away from the clutches of her torturer husband…