I Don't Kiss

I Don't Kiss

I'll do almost anything for money. ...but I don't kiss.

1991 · 115 min · ★ 6.2 · Drama

A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is herself a prostitute with a vicious pimp.

Directed by André Téchiné · Written by Jacques Nolot

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