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The Virgin of Pessac
FRANCE · 1968

The Virgin of Pessac

Jean Eustache
small-town society female virtue and morality social rituals and contests hypocrisy and pretension coming-of-age
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Synopsis

This landmark documentary by Jean Eustache, filmed in 1968, hilariously exposes small-town pomposity and naiveté as it chronicles the preparations for an annual contest to crown a village’s most virtuous young woman.

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