The Banned Woman

The Forbidden Woman
Directed byPhilippe Harel
Written byPhilippe Harel
Éric Assous
Produced byGaëlle Girre
Michel Guilloux
StarringIsabelle Carré
CinematographyGilles Henry
Edited byBénédicte Teiger
Release date
  • 24 September 1997 (1997-09-24)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The Forbidden Woman (French: La Femme défendue) is a 1997 French drama film directed by Philippe Harel. It was entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

The film portrays the seduction of a young woman by an older married man; the film is focused on the face of the young woman, rarely on her lover or other people.

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Forbidden Woman". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 22 September 2009.