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UNITED STATES · 1971
Harold and Maude
Hal Ashby
Synopsis
A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
Cinematic DNA
I discovered Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude in 1972, at the festival of Avoriaz. It had a big impact on me. It was a comedy on the subject of death, and there were things about the photography, the art direction, and the way the world was transfigured. It made me realize that you could make a very personal film and be successful, and that you could make a film with strange characters. I was thinking of it when I made Amélie.
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