Deep Water

Year: 1981

Runtime: 95 mins

Language: French

Director: Michel Deville

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Set on the island of Jersey off the French coast, Mélanie—a strikingly beautiful woman with a magnetic personality—flits from one inconsequential romance to another. Her older husband Victor, a perfumer, watches these affairs with a detached, almost indifferent tolerance, underscoring the emptiness of their marriage.

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