A Room in Town

Une chambre en ville (also known as A Room in Town) is a 1982 French musical drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music by Michel Colombier, and starring Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux and Michel Piccoli.

Like Demy's most famous film, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, it is an operetta-musical in which every line of dialogue is sung.

However, unlike Cherbourg, Chambre is closer to tragedy, with a darker, more explicitly political tone.

This is Édith Leroyer, unhappily married to the owner of a television shop, who has taken to part-time prostitution.

Meanwhile, Édith, going back to her husband's shop to collect some things and leave him, has a terrible row with him during which he cuts his throat.