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A Year in My Life
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Daniel Duval
Daniel Duval
Casts & Crew
Jean-Paul Rouve
Anne Brochet
Annie Girardot
Raphaël Katz
Denis Podalydès
Lorànt Deutsch
Mélanie Bernier
Emylou Brunet
Philippe Khorsand
Swann Arlaud
Max Morel
René Mussier
Louis Dussol
Martine Ferrière
Isabelle Mestre
Léo-Paul Salmain
Guy Durand
Daniel Duval
Bérangère Dupuy
Also Directed by Daniel Duval
A girl, Marie is led into prostitution by her pimp boyfriend, Gerard. She must not only give money to him but to the gangsters that explore him as well. Marie, together with a friend, Maloup, will try to become independent. They start to work the streets on their own but they will meet physical and sexual violence. They return to the brothels, and Marie goes back to her pimp, but Gerard has his caprices and wants more and more – he's in a spiral downwards and he's leading Marie with him. There's seems to be no escape.
In this gentle comedy, a disaffected group of young people bungle their first hold-up when the old lady they choose to rob turns out to be even poorer than they are. Not only that, but her husband has died, and she needs to get his body back to his hometown for burial and she is getting no help from the state. The would-be robbers good-naturedly agree to help her, and have a series of odd adventures involving the old lady, the corpse, and themselves. Eventually, the old lady dies as well, and they are really in a pickle.
A 1977 film by Daniel Duval.
Short film about marginal scrap dealers. After viewing it, the O.R.T.F. refuses to broadcast the film for its "pessimistic darkness".