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Dirty Dishes (1978) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1978 · 99 mins · French
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- Directed by
- Joyce Buñuel
- Starring
- Liliane Rovère, Liza Braconnier, Carole Laure, Pierre Santini, Bernard Haller, Daniel Sarky
Out of the frying pan and into the fire, the film follows Armelle, a housewife approaching her thirtieth birthday, trapped in an early‑1980s French domestic landscape marked by soaring unemployment. Married with two young sons, she has not held a job since abandoning a brief dancing career at twenty, and the pressure drives her toward a psychological collapse.
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