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Miquette et sa mère
FRANCE · 1950

Miquette et sa mère

Henri-Georges Clouzot
ambition and social climbing theater and performance coming of age seduction and manipulation provincial versus urban life
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Synopsis

A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and an old ham actor.

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