We see her, in wide shots, stealing things she wants to swallow and, in close-ups, the heroine inserting objects into her mouth: the lollipop she stole from a little girl, the glass of absinthe she swallows greedily, the fillet of herring she sniffs and devours, and finally a pipe she smokes while choking and pulling on it as if she can't help herself.
Each of the scenes combines full shots with a medium close-up of the woman, played by Alice Guy, taking into her mouth and enjoying what she has just stolen.
[...] Madame a des envies marks the beginning of an aesthetic that focuses on the sharing of an experience: desire.
She explores the filmic form to reach her goal: that the spectators feel the pleasure of the pregnant woman.
"[7] The film ends with the heroine finding a baby in a cabbage patch, a reference to her first film, La Fée aux Choux, which, as stressed by Iris Brey, shows the continuation of Guy's will "to tell stories related to the female condition and the construction of the female gender.