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Student Services

2010 · 101 min

A quietly harrowing plunge into financial desperation, where intimacy becomes a transaction and shame lingers in every frame.

Genres
Drama
Overview
Nineteen-year-old Laura is stressed by her first year at college when money worries distract her from her studies and so, desperate for cash, she answers an online advertisement for intimate companionship that leads her down a dangerous path.

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • survival
  • isolation
  • coming-of-age
  • guilt
Places
  • big city
  • school
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism9
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Emmanuelle Bercot
Written by
Emmanuelle Bercot
Starring
Déborah François, Mathieu Demy, Alain Cauchi, Benjamin Siksou, Anna Sigalevitch, Joseph Braconnier, Marc Chapiteau, Pascal Bongard
Cinematography
Christophe Offenstein
Runtime
101 min
Country
France
Languages
French, Italian

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