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North (1991) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1991 · 88 mins · French
- Starring
- Bulle Ogier, Xavier Beauvois, Bernard Verley, Bernard Nissile, Jean Douchet, Jean-René Gossart
A dysfunctional family lives in Northern France under a cloud of abuse and addiction. The father, a pharmacist, is a mean, drunkenly violent figure; the mother is pill‑dependent and harbors an incestuous desire for her son. The son skips school to go fishing, while their daughter copes with a mental handicap.
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