The bracing romantic screwball Anaïs in Love (2021) marked the arrival of Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet among the growing ranks of French female directors giving their national cinema a vigorous dusting-off — an honor roll including Mia Hansen-Love , Justine Triet , Rebecca Zlotowski , and, with The Little Sister (soon to be released Stateside), Hafsia Herzi. Starring Anaïs Demoustier as an irrepressible Parisian grad student who steamrolls her way into and out of affairs, the film was the standout of that year’s Cannes Critics’ Week. Now Bourgeois-Tacquet has a slot in the festival’s competition, though A Woman’s Life (La vie d’une femme) is the kind of intimate, modestly scaled Gallic movie likely to be greeted with some sniffiness about whether that promotion was premature — as if a Cannes competition entry simply must be a magnum opus-level swing for the fences. A Woman's Life The Bottom Line A buoyant and affecting character study.…