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Melodrama

Melodrama

1976 · 90 min · ★ 4.2

This black-and-white film explores the dividing line between the theatrical imagination and everyday reality in its story of a narcissistic silent movie actor who believes his screen image as a great lover but is in fact a confused bisexual. His girlfriend, also an actress, is also caught up in the fuzzy space between fantasy and reality but feels this as a loss and tries to do something about it.

Directed by Jean-Louis Jorge · Written by Jean-Louis Jorge

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