Year: 1980
Country: France
Director: Marie-Claude Treilhou
Cast: Ingrid Bourgoin, Martine Simonet, Michel Delahaye, Sonia Saviange
IMBD: Link

Language : French
Subtitles : German, English, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish





One could say Simone Barbès ou la Vertu is neither here nor there, but in constantly deflecting clichés, expectations and rigid structures, it taps into an endlessly fascinating, vibrant kind of cinema that is continuously alive to the present.

Behind the film is the production company Diagonale, founded in 1976 by the French critic, writer and filmmaker Paul Vecchiali, which would go on to produce films by Jean-Claude Biette, Jean-Claude Guiguet, Gérard Frot-Coutaz and Jacques Davila among others. Vecchiali’s motto, “Economy is style,” is perfectly exemplified by Treilhou’s film. Far from a purely utilitarian principle, it is an ethic for keeping cinema fresh, dynamic and true. The director Serge Bozon put it best in Libération: “There was in their films a taste for mixing tones and genres, a relationship to politics away from preconstructed and imposed discourse, a rapport with B movies; they had their own esotericism, their own secret intrigues.” The company’s name reflects its filmmakers’ skewed relationship with cinema, never fully discarding the mainstream but always approaching it at an angle, taking from it what they could use and leaving behind the rest (expensive sets and actors, stylistic and writing conventions).

Likewise, Simone in Treilhou’s film goes through the world at a queer angle, in all the senses. After she leaves the theatre, the film follows her into a different temple to pleasure: a lesbian cabaret bar. The Diagonale aesthetic could be described as queer even without knowledge of the collective’s close involvement in queer life and concerns – several of its directors died of Aids, and Vecchiali’s Once More (1988) was one of the first French films to discuss the illness and its impact on the gay population.

In Treilhou’s cabaret, the tragedy is of a more theatrical nature: passions run high, and seductive looks, quiet romantic betrayals and full meltdowns are apparently commonplace occurrences that leave Simone utterly unfazed. She eventually leaves and, in the film’s last section, is driven home by a random middle-aged man (Cahiers du cinéma critic Michel Delahaye). The moment seems both precious and throwaway, their conversation both banal and incredibly revealing, the film capturing the mercurial quality that night-time encounters between strangers often have. It is then that the veil of social roles and labels is the thinnest, then that things get thrillingly corrupted – then that, per the Diagonale filmmakers, genuine life and cinema can be found. (Elena Lazic)

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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:03:15 +0200
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DRF=1: 194 ( 0.176 %)
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DRF=3: 240 ( 0.218 %)
DRF=4: 261 ( 0.237 %)
DRF=5: 216 ( 0.196 %)
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DRF=9: 381 ( 0.345 %)
DRF=10: 307 ( 0.278 %)
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DRF=12: 396 ( 0.359 %)
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DRF=32: 430 ( 0.390 %)
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This report was created by AVInaptic (01-11-2020) on 10-05-2026 22:56:48