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24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
FRANCE · 2002

24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

Laurent Bouhnik
forbidden romance coming of age intergenerational wisdom passion and consequences memory and storytelling
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Synopsis

Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.

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