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Foreign Film Resolution, Weeks 11-14

Foreign Film Resolution, Weeks 11-14

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May 04, 2009
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Yeah, I'm still behind. And in some kind of Gallic rut, although I didn't realize it until I wrote this up.



Les Enfants Terribles (1950), Jean-Pierre Melville (screenplay by Jean Cocteau)

The Siren thinks of a certain romantic plot device as very French: One figure, usually a woman, is loved madly by several other characters, as in Jules et Jim, Les Enfan…

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