Dead Poets Society Steals a Queer Story
Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.
Nouvelle chance
How do you bring together such different people as Odette Saint-Gilles, an aging, forgotten actress living in a welfare home, Augustin Dos Santos, a pool boy at the Ritz Hotel, Bettina Fleischer, the heroine of a popular soap, and Raphael, a young, disturbingly handsome man? Together, will they have a last chance to make their dreams come true?
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How do you bring together such different people as Odette Saint-Gilles, an aging, forgotten actress living in a welfare home, Augustin Dos Santos, a pool boy at the Ritz Hotel, Bettina Fleischer, the heroine of a popular soap, and Raphael, a young, disturbingly handsome man? Together, will they have a last chance to make their dreams come true?
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Genre:Comedy, Drama
Written By:Julien Boivent, Anne Fontaine
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Runtime:90 minutes
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Cast
Anne Fontaine
Director
Danielle Darrieux
Odette Saint-Gilles
Arielle Dombasle
Bettina Fleischer
Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc
Augustin Dos Santos
Andy Gillet
Raphaël
Christophe Vandevelde
Franck
Michel Baudinat
le prêtre
Katsuko Nakamura
Kumiko
Mariana Otero
Madame Da Costa
Philippe Storez
Philippe
Xavier Morineau
l'employé du Ritz
Oscar Reillier
le barman du Ritz
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