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Les belles manières (1978)
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Original name: Les Belles Manières
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few years voluntarily locked up in his room. An encounter between two persons and two worlds where the relationship of the young man to this closed, strange and unknown universe rapidly turns tragedy.
Style:
atmospheric, art house, melancholic, ambiguous ending, moody, period drama
Plot:
seduction, older woman younger man, dysfunctional family, character study, repression, isolation, moral ambiguity, class conflict, obsession, claustrophobia, tragic romance, slow burn, intrigue, voyeurism, sexual awakening, haunting, male nudity, male pubic hair, sexploitation, prison, blonde, minimalism, male full rear nudity, young man, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
france
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Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Currently in post-production. Plot unknown. Unknown plot.
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Plot:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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164
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Duration: 93 min.
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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