Two couples discover how hard it is to set boundaries in an open relationship in this drama from writer and director...
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2012
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A village idiot and an articulate writer forge an unusual bond after a chance meeting in a local park. Germain is in his...
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2011
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This gentle romantic comedy from France concerns Jean (Fred Testot), a 35-year-old man still living with his mother in...
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Paoli
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2010
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A mysterious loner attempts to successfully complete his criminal mission while operating outside of the law in contemporary...
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2009
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Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands...
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2008
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A young couple find out what love truly means when one of them has a brush with death in this drama from writer and director...
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2008
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A lie told in anger sends a man on a strange and eventful journey in this drama. Bandiougou (Papa Malick N'Diaye) is a man...
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Boris
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2008
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Inspired after researching the stories of Nicaraguan children forced to fend for themselves after being abandoned by their...
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2008
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Writer/director Philippe Ramos ponders the formative years of legendary Herman Melville seaman Captain Ahab in this stylized...
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2007
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As summer fades from a small French town, young adolescent Sebastien (Baptiste Bertin) struggles with his own sexual identity...
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2006
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Jacques Rivette's epic-scale meditation on art, politics and relationships is an eight-part, 740 minute drama that begins as...
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2006
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2005
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Two men from two different walks of life develop an unexpected friendship in French director Patrice Leconte's 2002...
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Luigi
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2003
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2003
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Avant-garde director Werner Schroeter's Deux (Two) is a willfully disjointed film about twin sisters played by...
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2002
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When an indistinct woman named Charlotte (Isabelle Adjani) leaves a train station in hopes of changing her life forever,...
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2002
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French legend has it that a creature known as the Beast of Gevaudan -- a huge, wolf-like monster -- was responsible for the...
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2001
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Acclaimed and controversial French filmmaker Jean-Francois Richet directed and co-wrote this bleak look at a young woman...
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Bertrand
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2001
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Frederic Jardin directs this enjoyably nasty showbiz farce starring a veritable who's who of Gallic comedy. Elderly...
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2000
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Laetita Masson directs this hallucinatory dream-like work about dancing on the beach, Elvis impersonators, and sailors...
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2000
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In this tribute to the Spaghetti Western, amiable ex-con Gerard (Samuel Le Bihan) agrees to help his boss' nephew infiltrate...
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Jean-Mi
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2000
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This is a psychological drama about Louis Riquier (Charles Berling), a veteran of the Algerian war and a divorced father...
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1999
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Letitia Masson wrote and directed this tale told in flashbacks as a detective tracks a young woman. After France Robert...
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Pierre Lindien
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1998
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Marcel
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1998
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This period swashbuckler, set during the years 1699 to 1716, is the seventh screen adaptation of Paul Feval's 1857 serialized...
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1997
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In this French crime film, set during the time of the Gulf War, an elderly German tourist is murdered in Paris by junk dealer...
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1997
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Serge Perrin is 23 and unusually happy at the prospect of spending the rest of his life in jail for a series of crimes he...
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Inspector
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1996
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1995
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In this snappy French comedy, a young man goes on a quest to find the enigmatic fast-food woman with "the hair the color of...
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Francis
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1995
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Noted French filmmaker Demy's wife Agnes Varda helmed this intensely personal tribute to her late husband. It is her third...
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1995
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1995
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1995
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This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed....
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Commissaire Vasseur
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1995
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Jonathan (Melvil Poupaud) is an imaginative young man. This film unveils what goes on in his mind as he mulls over his recent...
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1994
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Espionage, personal integrity, and political commitment are the main themes running through this French thriller that...
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1994
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This "heist" film tells the story of a robbery in a stadium during the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle race. Throughout the film...
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Bernard
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1994
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The conversations of an ill-suited couple who came together through personal ads form the framework of this French film that...
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1994
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The war for control of a lucrative international drug trade provides the focus of this drama. The trouble begins when a...
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1992
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Olivier, the nine-year-old son of a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The...
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l'inspecteur Druot
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1992
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In this miniature drama, Antoine (Antoine Hubert) is a fifteen-year old boy who is so bored by school that, due to poor...
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Mr. Hervy
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1992
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Daniel and Maria were lovers at one time, but they have long since broken their affair off. However, when they keep running...
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1992
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1991
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Maurice (André Dussollier) was once a devoted socialist and followed his principles very nicely while he was an art...
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Richard
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1991
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La Soule is the name of a once-popular and now long-forgotten extremely violent sport with an ancient history, which somewhat...
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1989
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Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting...
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Simon
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1989
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This adaptation of Ben Hecht's novel is a satire that unfolds as a mystery story. A Hollywood studio is producing another...
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1988
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This gentle, mildly satiric French comedy follows the romantic adventures of a group of men who have gone with their children...
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Martin
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1988
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This brooding, enigmatic story won the 1989 Prix George Sadoul at the Cannes Film Festival, in the category "Un Certain...
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Roland
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1988
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Titled after the name of a little girl's dress size, the coming-of-age drama 36 Fillette follows a couple days in the life of...
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Lili's Father
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1988
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A European humanitarian organization tries to bring relief to the famine-stricken Sahel region of North Africa in this...
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Peter
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1988
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1987
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1987
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Francois Marboni (Victor Lanoux) is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rache...
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1987
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Menage begins as a comedy of sorts, but be warned: it develops into a very dark, very confusing probe into the seamier...
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1986
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Salome is a drama that oscillates between Judea in 30 A.D. to a kitsch New York in the 20th century. King Herod...
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1986
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In a routine look at what it means to finally leave adolescence behind -- even in one's mature years -- this series of mood...
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Francois
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1986
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The sentiments of producer, co-writer, and star Alain Delon provide the particular slant in this routine thriller about...
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Sylvain Dubor
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1985
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In this enigmatic thriller, Susannah (Tusse Silberg) is suddenly herded out of an apartment in the middle of the night and...
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Edouard
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1984
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Overly philosophical and obscure, this talkative mystery remains enigmatic through long, rambling discussions, the murder of...
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1984
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In this confusing, surreal, and slow-paced drama that swings back and forth from strange to farcical, Robert (Alain Delon)...
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1984
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1983
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In an allegorical film meant to convey the durability of a people, Vietnamese director Lam Le follows a mysterious written...
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The Sergeant
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1983
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1983
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Dambiel
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1982
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1982
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Passion, a major film in Jean-Luc Godard's ongoing investigation of the relations between painting and cinema, uses...
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1982
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1981
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The cartoonist Gerard Lauzier wrote this satire of psychologists, their practice, and the whole idea of group therapy, around...
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1981
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John Huston directed this exciting World War II action film, which culminates in a rousing soccer game. In a German prisoner...
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1981
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In this unreal walk through the streets of Paris, Marie (Bulle Ogier), a woman convicted of robbing a bank is just out from...
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Max
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1981
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The pain of writer's block is examined in this drama that centers around the daily anxieties of a frustrated writer who...
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1981
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This drama about a barmaid caught up in events beyond her control is the first film directed by Juliet Berto, and was also...
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1981
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Paul
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1980
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The Boy Soldier is set in the 1930s and is based on a novel by Yves Gibeau, a book that has the unusual distinction of being...
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1980
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1980
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Capati
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1979
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The relationships between men and women are examined in this drama. The story begins as two young women set out to find...
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Michel
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1979
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Director, Screenwriter, Serge
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1978
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In her 50s, Roberte (Denise Morin Sinclaire) is still an attractive woman who has kept her figure. She is married to Octave...
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1978
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L'Argent de Poche (Small Change) is an episodic comedy drama composed of several sequences that explore childhood in director...
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Jean-Francois Richet
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1976
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1976
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Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit américaine was director François Truffaut's loving and humorous...
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1973
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Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins...
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Paul
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1973
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Based on a real-life case study, recorded in Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard's 1806 volume Memoire et Rapport sur Victor de...
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1970
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