The 2005 French movie, Gilles' Wife, gets decent reviews, but I am not sure why. Elisa's sister Victorina and Elisa's husband Gilles have a long running affair, which goes bad. Gilles is a lunatic (I agree with Elisa's mother) and among other things beats up Victorina when she announces she is going to marry Marachel the tobacconist. Elisa puts up with everything, cooks his meals, rubs his back, washes his clothes, takes perfect care of her three perfect children, and jumps out of her attic window. It is nicely photographed (with several scenes of outside darkness and inside light that Vermeer could have designed), supposedly set in Belgium in the 1930s, but I think that in fact it was set earlier than that, unless Belgium had no autos in the 30's (except for an open truck of 1915 vintage.
Sitting through the movie was painful. Deciding whether to see Gilles' Wife again or Assassins again is a Hobson's choice.
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