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Une Belle Fille comme moi (1972)
Director: François Truffaut
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From Time Out Film Guide
Truffaut's weakest movie, a black comedy which totally misfires. Lafont languishes in prison and relates to a sociologist (Dussollier) her life of crime, which begins with patricide (at the age of nine) and goes down from there. While there is nothing objectionable about the story - she is a real slut and the men are an awful lot who get their just deserts, thus sidestepping charges of misogyny - Truffaut miscalculates the tone. He was normally the most civilised of directors, but this is a loud and crude film.Author: ATu
Cast & crew
Director: François Truffaut
Producer: Marcel Berbert, Claude Ganz
Cast: Bernadette Lafont, Claude Brasseur, Charles Denner, Guy Marchand, André Dussollier, Philippe Léotard, Anne Kreis full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 98 mins
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