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Normandy Nude

2018 · 105 min

A gentle, sunlit rural comedy where a stubborn mayor's absurd scheme brings a fading village together, warm and lightly funny.

Directed by: Philippe Le Guay
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Starring: François Cluzet, Toby Jones, François-Xavier Demaison

Tagline: It takes a village.
Overview: At the Mêle sur Sarthe, a small Norman village, farmers are affected by a crisis. Georges Balbuzard, the mayor of the city, is not one to let them down and decides to try everything to save his village...

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Directed by: Philippe Le Guay
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Starring: François Cluzet, Toby Jones, François-Xavier Demaison

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: found family
survival
class
friendship
healing
Places: countryside
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	7
Realism	6
Romance	2
Tension	3
Darkness	3
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama, comedy
Directed by: Philippe Le Guay
Written by: Philippe Le Guay, Olivier Dazat
Starring: François Cluzet, Toby Jones, François-Xavier Demaison, Arthur Dupont, Grégory Gadebois, Vincent Regan, Colin Bates, Philippe Rebbot
Music: Bruno Coulais
Cinematography: Jean-Claude Larrieu
Runtime: 105 min
Country: France
Languages: French, English

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