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Boulevard
FRANCE · 1960

Boulevard

Julien Duvivier
coming of age unrequited love urban poverty Parisian underworld family rejection
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Synopsis

Boulevard focuses on Georges 'Jojo' Castagnier, an adolescent who lives in a poor room under the roof of a block of apartments in the Pigalle section of Paris. He ran away from home when he realized that his step-mother hated him from day-one. Among Jojo's many neighbors is the gorgeous Jenny Dorr , a nightclub dancer, whose lover he dreams of being. But, to Jojo's disappointment, Jenny becomes th

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