

Is this worth your time? Honestly, only if you are a completionist for 1930s French cinema or just really, really love the aesthetic of old, smoky street corners. If you need a tight script or characters that make sense, you will probably hate this. It is a bit of a slog, but it has a weird, jagged energy that I sort o...


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"Is this worth your time? Honestly, only if you are a completionist for 1930s French cinema or just really, really love the aesthetic of old, smoky street corners. If you need a tight script or characters that make sense, you will probably hate this. It is a bit of a slog, but it has a weird, jagged energy that I sort of respected by the end. The whole thing feels like it was put together with scraps of paper found in a coat pocket. You get these vignettes of people wandering through Pigalle at ..."
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