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Faubourg St Martin

1986 · 83 min

A gentle, bittersweet drift through a shabby Parisian hotel, full of small lives and quiet longing, ending on a sudden jolt.

Directed by: Jean-Claude Guiguet
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Patachou, Françoise Fabian, Ingrid Bourgoin

Overview: Imagine a slightly dilapidated three star hotel in the tenth arrondissement run by a very distinguished lady with moral fibre and panache, Mrs. Coppercage. Alongside tourists visiting Paris, Mrs. Coppercage rents three rooms to three women at a monthly rate. Each woman is marked by life, yet they go on as best they can, never closing their eyes to the world around them, or to the men who impatiently await them. Faubourg Saint Martin opens as a love story and ends like a song as shots ring out and punctuate the chorus.

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Directed by: Jean-Claude Guiguet
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Patachou, Françoise Fabian, Ingrid Bourgoin

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
love
class
identity
survival
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	4
Realism	8
Romance	5
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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