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Madeleine works at weekends in a chic bar, in charge of a make-up area in the ladies' lavatories. She helps the customers titivate and in return has to listen to their interchangeable stories of joy and despair. Her life is slipping away between her fingers, until news comes that her mother is lying at death's door. Madeleine draws breath in the country, and as luck would have it her mother also recovers. Life resumes its usual course, but now Madeleine smiles as she describes her life. The strange location, the attempt to break away and the almost willful return to the old rut are strongly reminiscent of 'Simone Barbes ou la vertu', a film by Marie-Claude Treilhou. Simone had a couple of other bizarre escapades on the dark side of Paris, but this film chooses to tell a still more realistic story, and oddly enough derives its charm from the fact that so little occurs.
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Erik Daams
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Camera: Nicole Giguére, Lights: Pierre Pelletier, Editing and production: Françoise Dugré, Johanne Fournier, Sound: Michel Pépin, Music: Sylvie Tremblay, Sylvain Clavette, Marc Pérusse, Sound mixing: André Mailly, With: Marie Aubut, Claude Bernier, Jocelyne Corbeil, Pierre Bergeron
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