Film: TWICE A WOMAN (2 FOIS UNE FEMME) October 18, 2010

This screening is part of the Chicago International Film Festival.

Director: François Delisle
French with subtitles, 94 min.

Synopsis: An intuitive chronicle of one woman’s physical and emotional journey, Twice a Woman follows Catherine as she makes the near-impossible decision to leave her violent husband, taking their sensitive teenage son and fleeing to northern Quebec. With the help of a support group, she and her son struggle to reinvent themselves from whole cloth, adopting new identities and wiping the past clean. But the raw wounds they bear are not so easily salved.

Official Website: http://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/films_and_schedule/movie.php?show=twice_a_woman