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Dry Cleaning

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Dry Cleaning (1997)

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Reviews Counted:15

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Average Rating:6.6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: After spending a majority of their fifteen year marriage working, a straight-laced bourgeois couple take a much needed break and visit a local nightclub. They become fascinated by Loic, the... After spending a majority of their fifteen year marriage working, a straight-laced bourgeois couple take a much needed break and visit a local nightclub. They become fascinated by Loic, the incredibly attractive male half of a brother-sister drag queen performing team. Loic befriends the couple and help them to express their deepest desires and emotions which leads to the long overdue examination of their ordinarily dull lives. Filmed in Switzerland and France. [More]

Starring: Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Stanislas Merhar

Starring: Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Stanislas Merhar

Director: Anne Fontaine

Director: Anne Fontaine
Screenwriter: Anne Fontaine, Gilles Taurand
Producer: Philippe Carcassonne, Alain Sarde

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stimulates ongoing thinking and plants a solid emotional whammy that cannot be ignored

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Has quite a few sordid moments.

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Fontaine laces her story with enough humor, suspense and insight to lift the plot far above the merely sleazy and titillating.

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