Joanna the Frenchwoman
Brazilian Saga: Carlos Diegues' Cinematic Adventures
April 12 - 18, 2013
A sugar cane mill owner falls in love with brothel madam Jeanne (Jeanne Moreau) and takes her to his rural home, where she’s seduced by a world she’s never known.
French expatriate Joanna (Jeanne Moreau) owns a São Paolo brothel in 1930. A client who falls in love with her takes Joanna to his sugar cane mill. Once there, she makes a family and is seduced by an ethnic and cultural world that is quite unknown to her. As time passes, Jeanne becomes the matriarch of a once-proud, now-decaying family.
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