The Punishment

Directed by Jean Rouch

64 minutes / B&W
French / English subtitles
Release: 1962
Copyright: 1963

Included in boxset Eight Films by Jean Rouch.

An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.

"An extraordinary and extraordinarily rare movie about public misogyny." —Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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