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Bookmark this pageA Flame in My Heart (1987)
Director: Alain Tanner
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A folly from Tanner, scripted by its heavily emoting star Mézières, this tells the ludicrous tale of a woman who can never get what she wants, whether she's rehearsing Racine on stage or stripping in an immigrants' bar in Paris. She spends the first half of the movie trying to shake off an exceptionally persistent Arab lover, then picks up a journalist on the Métro and launches into an affair that takes her to Egypt. Ms Mézières' overheated performance would not be out of place in a Rosa von Praunheim movie; the embarrassment quotient is off the scale.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Alain Tanner
Cast: Myriam Mézières, Aziz Kabouche, Benoît Régent, Biana, Jean-Yves Berthelot, André Marcon full cast
Duration: 110 mins
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