Changing Representations of Women in the Cinema of Diane Kurys

This article examines a change in the representation of women in Kurys's early films, Diabolo Menthe and Coup de foudre when compared to her recent Après l'amour and A La folie. It argues that whereas Kurys's early films privileged female bonding and rebellion, her more recent work positions her female protagonists more ambiguously as being divided, solipsistic and out of touch with the everyday realities of life for ordinary women, thus alienating the female audiences who originally found Kurys's work so enjoyable.