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35 rhums
FRANCE · 2008

35 rhums

Claire Denis
aging and mortality father-daughter relationships work and identity retirement and displacement urban isolation
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Synopsis

A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.

Cinema Atlas Connection
When I wrote Moonlight, I was thinking a lot about Claire Denis’s 35 Shots of Rum and Beau Travail. She's very good at finding the sensuality and the sexuality of intimacy in physical touch, but doing it in a way that doesn't feel salacious. It's just human.
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This Film Influenced

→ Moonlight (2016)

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