Sam's Enough

Sam's Enough

1992 · 95 min · ★ 4.8 · Comedy, Drama

After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the roommate of a gay American artist (Phillip Bartlett) and works as the housewife for two wealthy older homosexuals (Claude Chabrol and Jean-François Balmer. After she gets settled, she takes a job at a government office for a while but then decides to have a child, which her obliging roommate makes with her the old fashioned way. He then returns to his usual preference, while Eva explores becoming an artist herself. From time to time in this easygoing comedy, Eva's similarly independent and quirky mother (Bernadette Lafont) shows up.

Directed by Virginie Thévenet · Written by Virginie Thévenet

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Aure Atika Eva
Jean-François Balmer Albert
Philip Bartlett Peter
Claude Chabrol M. Denis
Rossy de Palma Chichi
Bass Dhem Head of register of births, marriages, and deaths
Bernadette Lafont Lucie
Santiago Lajusticia José
Catherine Benguigui Employee of the town hall
Marilú Marini Tatiana Gracchi

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