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FRANCE · 1968
The Virgin of Pessac
Synopsis
This landmark documentary by Jean Eustache, filmed in 1968, hilariously exposes small-town pomposity and naiveté as it chronicles the preparations for an annual contest to crown a village’s most virtuous young woman.
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Films with Similar Themes
small-town society · female virtue and morality · social rituals and contests · hypocrisy and pretension · coming-of-age
