Clean

Clean

2004 · 111 min · EN · 6.4 (77 votes)
Dir. Olivier Assayas · Starring Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Jeanne Balibar, Don McKellar, Martha Henry · Music Brian Eno

“When you don't have a choice, you change.”

Drama

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

VIBE

A raw, unflinching look at the struggle for sobriety and the desperate fight to reclaim a lost life. It feels like a quiet, determined battle against overwhelming odds, steeped in the melancholy of past mistakes.

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