Dir. Bertrand Blier · Starring Monica Bellucci, Bernard Campan, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, François Rollin, Jean Barney
“French Director Bertrand Blier creates an intensely seductive story about beauty, sex and Love.”
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After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.
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This film feels like a cold, detached observation of human desperation. It's a bleakly funny, yet ultimately sad, look at transactional relationships and the emptiness that can lie beneath the surface of even the most unusual arrangements.
melancholicunsettlingwrycynicalsteadyEuropean arthousecharacter studynaturalistictransactional relationshipslonelinessdesperationthe illusion of love