Emmanuelle Riva

as Mother

as Anne

as Elle

as Barny

as Tante Lyda

as Martha

as Terese

as Mrs. Prévost

as Marilina

as Geneviève Herbin

as la secrétaire de Noël

as Mother (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Mrs. Malka

as Suzanne Doucet

as Thérèse Desqueyroux

as Femme église

as Self

as Madre

as Madame Rey

as Dominique

as Adélaïde Tumelat

as Grandmother / La grand-mère

as Mother

as Emma

as la princesse de Bormes

as Mouche

as Une invitée

as The Superwoman

as Valentine

as Sonia Stern

as Granny

as Mrs. Bouvier, the mother

as Lucia Rossi Perozzi (segment "La donna che viveva sola")

as Maretta

as Clémence Grandval

as Françoise

as Self (archive footage)

as Grandmother

as Mother Marie-Thérèse Vauzou

as Micky's Mother

as Sophie

as Anna Leduc

as Juliette

as Self

as Isabelle

as Lisa Leibovitch

as Mathilde

as Germaine Tourier

as The Baroness

as Maguerite

as Maria Richter

as Clémentine / Calypso

as Narrator (voice)

as Caterina

as Henriette

as La mère de Lucas

as Soledad

as Le choeur

as Vitalie Rimbaud

as Professoressa Chaldiny

as Self

as World's woman

as Pasiphae

as La tragédienne

as Self

as Self