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Violette Nozière
FRANCE · 1978

Violette Nozière

Claude Chabrol
double life parental deception class conflict youth rebellion 1930s Paris
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Synopsis

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

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