Movie releases. “The Prisoner of Bordeaux”: a story of friendship between the wives of prisoners
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Like a promise of freedom that would not be entirely fulfilled, Patricia Mazuy's latest film remains captivated by her elegance. Behind this refined facade, this story of friendship across social differences remains on the surface.
Isabelle Huppert and Hafsia Herzi form a nice duo in the new film by Patricia Mazuy, the story of an encounter across the class barrier.Since the Berlin Film Festival in February, we have been waiting to discover Isabelle Huppert and Hafsia Herzi in Les Gens d'à Côté, by André Téchiné... But it's in La Prisonnière de Bordeaux by Patricia Mazuy, shot in the wake and presented at the Cinemas' Fortnight of Cannes, that we discover them together for…
Patricia Mazuy organizes the improbable encounter between a wealthy woman and a city girl, united by their condition as female prisoners. Isabelle Huppert and Hafsia Herzi illuminate this film with Chabrolian accents, in which class struggle and emancipation skilfully mingle...
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