Benoît Jacquot / France / 2004 / 95 minutes
Cast: Isild Le Besco, Ouassini Embarek, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Laurence Cordier
In French with English subtitles
When she hangs up the phone after hearing her lover say "We’re coming right now", she knows in her heart of hearts what she hadn’t faced up before: that this man she loves, this "prince" from nowhere, is a hoodlum. He has just robbed a bank and a man got killed.
It’s the mid-1970s. She’s nineteen years old. Right now, as if in a waking dream, she falls headlong from the tight, narrow space of her father’s uptown apartment into a weaving world of escape -Spain, Morocco, Greece- and from being an almost well-behaved girl into the life she’s always wanted, for better or worse.
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