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The Slap

The Slap

1974 · 99 min · FR · 6.8 (84 votes)
Dir. Claude Pinoteau · Starring Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Isabelle Adjani, Nicole Courcel, Francis Perrin, Jacques Spiesser · Music Georges Delerue
DramaComedyRomance

A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.

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A simmering pot of parental anxiety and existential ennui. It feels like a long, drawn-out sigh, punctuated by moments of sharp, uncomfortable honesty. The film captures the quiet desperation of middle age colliding with youthful rebellion.

volatileanxiousmelancholicwrysteadyFrench New Wavecharacter studynaturalisticfamily conflictgenerational divideexistential dreadmidlife crisis
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