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Release Date: Sep 8, 2000
Running Time: 134 mins. (V)
Additional Notes: dialogue French
Country Of Origin: France
Country Of Origin: Germany
Country Of Origin: Japan
Country Of Origin: Switzerland
synopsis
Pierre, a successful young novelist, leaves his affluent family and his fiancee in order to save his illegitimate half-sister, when he discovers that she was abandoned by his parents on the day that he was born. The two travel with some friends of hers to Paris, where Pierre decides to become a real artist, and write a novel about the truth of the world.
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Director
Marie
Pierre Valombreuse
Isabelle
Lucie de Boisieux
Thibault
Marguerite
Razerka
The Little Girl
The Boss
Fred--The Houseboy
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Novel as Source Material
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reviews
Adapted from a Herman Melville novel, this strange, irritating film follows Pierre, a successful novelist, who flees his glorious Normandy chateau and his devoted fiancée to live in squalor with Isabelle, a gloomy shell-shocked Eastern European with whom he shares a dad. Obsessed with this mysterious stalker, Pierre tracks her down and finds that Isabelle is his sister. They flee to Paris, become lovers and Pierre begins work on a new book and strives to expose "life's great lie" and to get in…
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