sentences:  At the 1958 Venice Film Festival, the film won the Special Jury Prize and was nominated for the Golden Lion.Jeanne Tournier (Moreau) lives with her husband Henri (Alain Cuny) and young daughter, Catherine, in a mansion near Dijon.Her emotionally remote husband is a busy newspaper owner who has little time for his wife, except when he chooses to place demands upon her; often they sleep in separate rooms.