Characters & Themes
The Eighth Day (1960) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1960 · 82 mins · French
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- Directed by
- Marcel Hanoun
- Starring
- Emmanuelle Riva, Marcel André, Anne Caprile, Max Montavon, José Varela, Félix Marten
Françoise, a thirty‑year‑old single typist, devotes her Sundays to a solitary escape. On one such day she pretends to attend a horse race, using it as an excuse to refine her sense of elegance and sophistication. Meanwhile, Georges, a widowed neighbor, takes an interest in her and begins to court her.
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