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D’Amour et d’eau fraiche
Isabella Czajka

One of French cinema's vital new voices delivers an outlaw romance and social critique starring terrific newcomer, Anaïs Demoustier as a smart, bored twentysomething who finds an alternative to lackey work and high rents—running off with a guy and a gun.

DIRECTOR
Isabella Czajka
YEAR
2010
COUNTRY
France
RUNTIME
90 minutes
LANGUAGE
French
ORIGINAL TITLE
D’Amour et d’eau fraiche

A smart bored twentysomething finds a better alternative to lackey work and high rents in the city: running off with a guy and a gun! Over the course of trudging to job interviews, fresh graduate Julie Bataille (Anaïs Demoustier) meets Ben (Pio Marmaï), a man who chooses to live from day to day by his wits and small-time deals. When he makes an unusual suggestion to join him, she hesitates at first but then spends the summer in the South of France with him on a trip that proves surprising and exciting in ways she couldn’t have expected.

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