SummaryCheyenne, a young unemployed journalist whose welfare payments are about to be cut off, decides to leave Paris to live a marginal life in the country. She leaves behind Sonia, the woman she loves. Sonia is a physics and chemistry teacher at a Parisian high school. She tries her best to forget Cheyenne, but it's not easy. How do we reconcile what ... Read More
Directed By:Valérie Minetto
Written By:Valérie Minetto, Cécile Vargaftig
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A beguiling comedy from a Marxist-inflected thesis that is filled with characters who rage against the machine with pessimism, optimism, and naïveté--sometimes in rotation.
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Suspenseful, funny, touching, sexy and painlessly pertinent.
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The film, adeptly directed by Valerie Minetto (from a script she wrote with Cecile Vargaftig), suffers from some awkward subtitling and a few ineffective fantasy bits but is otherwise provocative and well-acted. This one's worth looking for.
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Valerie Minetto's intelligent first feature deals with a lesbian couple, but the same-sex angle is refreshingly incidental to the story line.
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Production Company:
- Bandonéon
- Adria Films
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Région Franche-Comté
Release Date:Dec 7, 2007
Duration:1 h 26 m
Rating:R
Awards
Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
































