L'été en pente douce (1987)Director:Gérard Krawczyk |
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L'été en pente douce (1987)Director:Gérard Krawczyk |
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Jacques Villeret | ... |
Maurice Leheurt aka Mo
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| Jean-Pierre Bacri | ... |
Stephane Leheurt aka Fane
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Pauline Lafont | ... |
Lilas
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Guy Marchand | ... |
Andre Voke
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Jean Bouise | ... |
Olivier Voke
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Jean-Paul Lilienfeld | ... |
Shawenhick
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Jacques Mathou | ... |
Jeannot
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Dominique Besnehard | ... |
Leval
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| Claude Chabrol | ... |
The priest
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Patrick Braoudé | ... |
Gendarme
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Laurent Gendron | ... |
L'américain
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Andrée Laberty | ... |
Mme Castillon
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Michel Lataste | ... |
Patron Café des sports
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Michel Such | ... |
Paul le vigile
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Georges Vaur | ... |
M. Bressoul
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The gritty decors combine interestingly with a dreamlike plot, pitting the hero and his "borderline" brother against the hostility of his home town, inflamed by his return, after his mother's death, with his Marilyn-Monroe-imitating girlfriend/fiancee. Although the conclusion is a bit facile, this film should go down in history for Pauline Lafont's - and the director's - creation of Lilas. Incarnating a male fantasy leavened with reminiscences of her mother Bernadette's powerful performance in Nelly Kaplan's _La fiancee du pirate_, Lafont generates more sheer sexual magnetism than any other woman I have ever seen on screen, whether rated R or XXX. It's wrenching to recall that this vibrant young woman died in an accident a year later at the age of 25.