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1999 | B/N | 134:00

Pierre, a young man of privilege, whose anonymously-published novel is a hit and who’s about to marry his blond cousin, Lucie, abandons all when a dark-haired vagrant tells him her secret late one night in the woods: that she is Isabelle, his sister, abandoned by their father.


Country: Francia, Suiza, Japón, Alemania
Direction: Carax; Leos
Script: Carax; Leos, Fargeau; Jean-Pol
Production: Pésery; Bruno
Photography: Gautier; Eric
Sound: Laforce; Jean Pierre
Music: Walker; Scott
Cast:Depardueu; Guillaume, Deneuve; Catherine, Golubeva; Yekaterina
Participation year at FICM: 2021

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