DCP

The Girl From Nowhere

La Fille de nulle part
Jean-Claude Brisseau
Part of

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2013

February 28 - March 10, 2013

North American Premiere!

Rescuing a young woman from the clutches of a thug, a retired math teacher (Brisseau, himself) finds in her a muse and possibly a mystical agent opening new gates of perception—and perhaps death.

DIRECTOR
Jean-Claude Brisseau
YEAR
2012
COUNTRY
France
RUNTIME
91 minutes
LANGUAGE
French with English subtitles
FORMAT
DCP
ORIGINAL TITLE
La Fille de nulle part
START DATE
March 10, 2013

North American Premiere!

Lost in a maze of his philosophizing while trying to write a book, a retired math teacher is forced to deal with the real world when he must rescue a young woman from the clutches of a thug outside his Paris apartment. What the teacher doesn’t know is that this woman may be his muse, a mystical agent or an angel of death. Stars director Brisseau and Virginie Legeay. Winner of the Golden Leopard, Locarno film festival 2012.

The Girl From Nowhere
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