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Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad (1971) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1971 · 95 mins · French
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- Directed by
- Jean-Daniel Pollet
- Starring
- Bernadette Lafont, Marcel Dalio, Henri Guybet, Luc Moullet, Rufus, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Leon shares a two‑room house with his sister Marie in a cul‑de‑sac of Faubourg‑Saint‑Antoine. He tailors in one room, while Marie claims to be a clairvoyant in the other. Leon’s peace shatters when he learns she is a prostitute and her fiancé Maxime is a pimp. That same day he meets Arlette, a provincial girl Marie brings home, and falls in love.
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