Movies like One Deadly Summer
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One Deadly Summer (1983)
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Original name: L'Été meurtrier
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
Style:
erotic, sexy, neo noir, slasher, social, anthology, erotic drama, neurotic, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, sexual manipulation, rape and revenge, small town, exhibitionist, summer, traumatic childhood, exhibitionism, rape victim, erotica, breast feeding, raped woman, rape, female nudity, murder, adult filmmaking, wedding, woman peeing, small town life, teenage girl, cycling, dancing, incest, mental disorder, lust ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 70s, 60s, year 1976, year 1955, 1950s ...
Place:
france, europe, south of france, provence, southern france
Keyword:
bruise, movie theatre, crawling, visit, outburst
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Duration: 97 min.
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Story:
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Story:
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