- Studio: First Run Features
- Release Date: Aug 6, 2003
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- Starring: Bulle Ogier, Hélène Fillières, Jonathan Zaccaï
- Summary: A microcosm of French society, including Bulle Ogier as a woman with a gambling problem, stuck in a once fashionable coastal resort town in Northern France.
- Director: Julie Lopes-Curval
- Genre(s): Drama
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90Compare it to what passes for sophisticated filmmaking in this country and the movie becomes a living instrument of cinematic humanism: lovingly intent on observing, not judging; concerned with sympathy, not control; accepting the inevitable ambiguities, not denying them.
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80The whole endeavor pleases with its wealth of tiny observations that add up to an affecting whole.
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60The writer-director's overthinking on the matter is part of what's wrong with her debut film, which is sensitively shot, deeply felt, and dry as dirt.
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