Bechdel Test Movie List

The female lead has conversations with basically two other females who remain nameless. They discuss a few things other than a man, but it doesn't take long for the conversations to wind up there. Passes, but barely.

There is just one woman who has a name, if i remember well...

Is any woman named in this movie? Certainly not the female lead, played by Juliette Binoche — the cast list on Wikipedia calls her "she." (IMDB calls her "Elle," which is just French for "she.") For that matter, no other character is named on Wikipedia or IMDB other than the male lead. If no woman is named in the whole movie, then logically the movie must fail the test, right?

Well, I don't think so; I think this movie is an example of how the test should be rephrased to include women or girls who have major roles, whether or not they're named. That could help to make more sense of the "pass" rating given to this movie and others where the main woman isn't named, Joan Fontaine's character in "Rebecca" (1940 version) and Veronica Lake's character in "Sullivan's Travels," and many silent movies with credits that gave generic names to main characters like "The Girl."