One Sings, the Other Doesn't

One Sings, the Other Doesn't

120 mins | Drama, Music | March 9, 1977

In this story of friendship and reproductive rights, 14 years in the relationship between two very dissimilar women are chronicled. Pauline is a middle-class city girl, at odds with her very conventional family. Suzanne is several years older, a country girl with two illegitimate children and another (whom she cannot support) on the way. Pauline loans Suzanne money for an abortion. At this point, the two separate and communicate mainly through postcards. Some years later, they meet at an abortion rally, and they have many adventures and stories to share with one another.

One Sings, the Other Doesn't

120 mins | Drama, Music | March 9, 1977

One Sings, the Other Doesn't
In this story of friendship and reproductive rights, 14 years in the relationship between two very dissimilar women are chronicled. Pauline is a middle-class city girl, at odds with her very conventional family. Suzanne is several years older, a country girl with two illegitimate children and another (whom she cannot support) on the way. Pauline loans Suzanne money for an abortion. At this point, the two separate and communicate mainly through postcards. Some years later, they meet at an abortion rally, and they have many adventures and stories to share with one another.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Société Française de Production (SFP), Ciné Tamaris, Ina, Paradise, INLC, Population
Original title L'une chante, l'autre pas
Directors Alice Chazelles, Jean-Claude Mallet, Agnès Varda
Writers Agnès Varda

Cast

Thérèse Liotard

as Suzanne

Valérie Mairesse

as Pauline, dite "Pomme"

Robert Dadiès

as Jérôme

Mona Mairesse

as La mère de Pomme

Francis Lemaire

as Le père de Pomme

Ali Rafie

as Darius

Mathieu Demy

as Zorro

François Courbin

as Mathieu, 9 mois

Gisèle Halimi

as Gisèle Halimi

Salomé Wimille

as Marie, 3 ans

Nicole Clément

as La prof de philo

Jean-Pierre Pellegrin

as Docteur Pierre Aubanel

Joëlle Papineau

as Joëlle

Micou Papineau

as Micou

Doudou Greffier

as Doudou

Dane Porret

as Le rocker yéyé

François Wertheimer

as François

Fred Maubert

as Le commissaire

François Gibert

as François Ier, le guitariste

Marion Hänsel

as La funambule enceinte

Jean Van Der Swalnen

as Le père de Suzanne

Isabelle Eduards

as Marie, 5 ans

Frédéric Boyot

as Mathieu, 2 ans et demie

Gilberte Sallé

as L'assistante sociale

Bénédicte Charonnet

as Carla, copine de Marie

Evelyne Tonietto

as Evelyne

Élise Beltrame

as Élise

Jeanine Braendlin

as Celle qui conteste la chanson

Rosalie Varda

as Marie

Dominique Ducros

as Marie, age 13

Laetitia Rojas

as Suzanne, 2 ans

Sapho

as

Agnès Varda

as Narrator (voice)