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A Dirty Story
FRANCE · 1977

A Dirty Story

Jean Eustache
voyeurism sexuality narrative structure documentary versus fiction male desire
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Synopsis

A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.

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