Mr. Brize's greatest skill is his ability to imply the deep and complicated emotions beneath the placid, decorous surface of Jeanne. "A Woman's Life," like "The Measure of a Man," moves calmly and deliberately, but it never feels slow
"A Woman's Life" is a very particular experience, told with consistency and without a whit of compromise. It's not always exciting, but there's something tremendously rewarding (and very sad) about the matter-of-factness of it all
