L'opéra-mouffe (original title) was shown in the U.S. as Diary of a Pregnant Woman (1958). The filmmaker Agnès Varda directed this homage to Rue Mouffetard, in Paris' 5th Arrondissement.
I think the original French title works better for this movie. It's true that the neighborhood is seen through the eyes of a pregnant woman, but I think the intent of the film is to give us a feeling for the everyday life in this non-prepossessing neighborhood in Paris.
Varda uses her usual technique of casually showing us the people and events in the neighborhood, and letting us draw our own conclusions. Nothing dramatic happens during the short (16 minute) film. However, at the end, I felt that I had learned something about the way that neighborhood looked and sounded at that time.
We saw this film on the large screen at the excellent Dryden Theatre of the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY. It was part of an Agnès Varda retrospective sponsored by the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Eastman Museum. It will work well on the small screen.
