Is it worth the watch? Honestly, only if you have a thing for old French melodramas that smell like sea salt and dust. If you like fast-paced thrillers, skip this. You will probably find it boring. But if you want to sit in a room that feels like it hasn't been opened since 1938, you might get a kick out of it. It is ...
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"Is it worth the watch? Honestly, only if you have a thing for old French melodramas that smell like sea salt and dust. If you like fast-paced thrillers, skip this. You will probably find it boring. But if you want to sit in a room that feels like it hasn't been opened since 1938, you might get a kick out of it. It is not exactly a masterpiece, but it has this weird, lingering gravity to it. The story moves at a snail's pace, which is either meditative or a total drag depending on how much coffe..."
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