Top Cast
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Sandrine Gresset
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Anne Angel
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Jean-Claude Narboni
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Claude Meyer
Overview
Experimental film shot in Paris and in the forest of Fontainebleau, in black and white with some sequences in color. An ode to vinyl, women's legs and perforated plastic filmstrip.
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