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Madeleine

Madeleine

1950 · 115 min · EN · NR · 6.8 (39 votes)
Dir. David Lean · Starring Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Sellars, André Morell · Music William Alwyn

“Here are the virile, violent facts that caused the most famous jury verdict in history...”

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Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.

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A hauntingly atmospheric descent into a woman's hidden desires and the suffocating constraints of her world. It's a slow, deliberate unraveling, steeped in a quiet dread and the weight of unspoken truths.

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