Polarizing Polar: An Exploitation Film For the Modern Viewer
In the shadow of towering film production companies lived dozens of grindhouses, genres, and low-budget films deemed too “unclean” for the modern film audience.

Mathieu, fifteen years old, student in an agricultural high school, is an apprentice on a work-study program at Paul's farm, a small dairy farm on the Haut Doubs plateaus. In addition to learning working methods, Mathieu must integrate into family life, make his mark, find his place. Around the gestures of work, links are woven with Paul. He learns from his contact what cannot be learned in a classroom. Because it is also an absent father that Paul replaces...
In the shadow of towering film production companies lived dozens of grindhouses, genres, and low-budget films deemed too “unclean” for the modern film audience.
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