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Private Fears in Public Places
FRANCE · 2006

Private Fears in Public Places

Alain Resnais
urban isolation loneliness in modern life failed human connection unrequited love interpersonal misunderstanding
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Synopsis

Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the bartender's best patron, an ex-soldier who's lost his moorings while his fiancée looks for a large flat for them; and, the estate agent's much younger sister, who answers personals and waits in cafés with a red flower pinned on her jacket. Will any connect? Can open hearts trump fears?

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