One Day You’ll Understand (Plus Tard)
Running time 90 minutes
Written by Maria Jose Sanselme and Amos Gitai
Directed by Amos Gitai
Starring Hippolyte Girardot, Jeanne Moreau, Dominique Blane, Emmanuelle Devos
Amos Gitai’s One Day You’ll Understand (Plus Tard), from a screenplay (in French with English subtitles) by Marie-Jose Sanselme Read More
Pawel
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Pawel Pawlikowski’s My Summer of Love, from a screenplay by Mr. Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne, based on the novel by Helen Cross, turns out to be a triumph of unexpectedness in its slimmed-down story of two teenage girls, one middle-to-lower-class, and the other upper-class. The two equally lonely girls drift into a relationship that is Read More
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