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Arlette Langmann has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 1990s.
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Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs. Her fulsome sexuality further ratchets up the suppressed passions of her narcissistic brother, insecure mother and brooding, authoritarian father.
Dir. Maurice Pialat · With Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Christophe Odent
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.
Dir. Claude Berri · With Miou-Miou, Renaud, Jean Carmet
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.
Dir. Claude Berri · With Michel Blanc, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle
A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.
Dir. Maurice Pialat · With Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Guy Marchand
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