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Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
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Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Original name: Nelly et Mr. Arnaud
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
Style: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, light, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot: friendship, age difference, senior citizen, love triangle, friends, love and romance, midlife crisis, fall in love, couples, love affair, infidelity, looking for love, introspection, writer's life, human nature, unfulfillment, couple relations, divorce, publishing, rich man poor woman, love, catastrophe, twists and turns, relationships, loneliness ...
Time: year 1995, 90s, 1920s
Place: france, europe, paris france, california, tokyo
Keyword: gangsters, french

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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 238 min.
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Duration: 95 min.
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A Few Days of Respite (2010)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 79 min.
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Country: USA
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Duration: 109 min.
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