The painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a relationship she also has with an "established" journalist she meets...
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Title: A Flame in My Heart (1987)
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Myriam Mézières | ... | Mercédès |
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Benoît Régent | ... | Pierre |
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Azize Kabouche | ... | Johnny (as Aziz Kabouche) |
| André Marcon | ... | Etienne | |
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Douglas Ireland | ... | L'ami américain |
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Jean-Gabriel Nordmann | ... | Le metteur en scène |
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Biana | ... | L'accessoiriste |
| Jean-Yves Berteloot | ... | Le comédien | |
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The painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a relationship she also has with an "established" journalist she meets in the subway. The stories illustrate the absolute claim of a woman who can only understand love in terms of life and death, an attitude that generally makes love appear dramatic, but at least burning and flickering, like the flame that glows in her heart. Written by jsanchez
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male objectification | striptease | nudity | sex | female frontal nudity |Genres:
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Pierre: I don't know. Maybe. We'll see. Yes, I think so. And you?
Mercédès: Oh, yes.
Pierre: How do you know?
Mercédès: Because you kissed me between my legs.
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Mercédès: Are you going to love me?Pierre: I don't know. Maybe. We'll see. Yes, I think so. And you?
Mercédès: Oh, yes.
Pierre: How do you know?
Mercédès: Because you kissed me between my legs.
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FrenchRelease Date:
3 June 1987 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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I saw this virtually unreleased film in the U.S. at a film festival and was both moved and compelled by this strange story of a woman's disintegration into madness and sex addiction. There's never been a character study like this. Apparently, the director and the actress wrote the film based on their own passed relationship and the painful honesty that it dramatizes makes it difficult to watch at times. Audiences often dismissed it as just another French sex film, but it examines the often deep recesses of the human personality with unflinching realism.