Claim: The 1976 French movie, Docteur Françoise Gailland was about Dr. Françoise Gailland who has a pregnant daughter, has cancer, and finds a lover was directed by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli.
Evidence: Docteur Françoise Gailland is a 1976 French film directed by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli, and starring Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, François Périer and Isabelle Huppert. Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her pregnant teenaged daughter Elisabeth, and her sullen son Julien. While her life in such disarray, she learns that she has cancer. However, she does manage to find the time to spend with her lover, Daniel Letessier.