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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its intimate, image-conscious romance turns looking, being looked at, and artistic fixation into a slow-burning emotional bond, matching the sensual, obsessive perspective of The Girl.
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Why this pick
A woman’s unexpected attraction disrupts an established life in a dreamy, nocturnal world; it shares The Girl’s atmosphere of desire that feels both liberating and destabilising.
03
Why this pick
This restrained, visually elegant romance follows a connection that grows against social and personal constraints, with the same emphasis on yearning rather than easy certainty.
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Why this pick
A chance encounter becomes an emotionally disruptive affair, echoing The Girl’s tension between established partners, unexpected desire, and the cost of obsession.
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Why this pick
Its passionate relationship is shaped by secrecy, competing attachments, and mounting emotional risk, offering a more historically charged counterpart to The Girl’s forbidden intensity.
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01 / THE STORY
The film is narrated by Agathe De La Boulaye as "The Artist". She is obsessed with a nightclub singer (Claire Keim) whom she calls "The Girl". One night the girl takes the artist to the hotel where she lives and they make love. The girl, who does not usually sleep with women, tells the artist that it is "just one night" but they begin seeing each other. The girl continues to see men and the artist has a long term lover, Bu Savè (Sandra Nkake), who accepts the artist's obsession.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The Man
Bartender
The Girl
