CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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The Mother and the Whore posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1973 3h 27m FRA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

In Paris, Alexandre, an unemployed young man with memories of the May 1968 events in France, attempts to persuade his former love, Gilberte, to marry him. Gilberte opts to instead marry another man. Alexandre is involved with a live-in girlfriend called Marie, and is interested in films such as ''The Working Class Goes to Heaven''. One day, after an unsuccessful reconciliation with Gilberte at the highly popular Les Deux Magots café, he meets Veronika, a Poles in France twenty-something nurse. In the midst of the sexual revolution, Veronika is highly promiscuous, and begins to make advances on Alexandre.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Bernadette Lafont

Bernadette Lafont

Marie

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Alexandre