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Microbudget Movies

Je tu il elle

1h 26m

Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1975 • France

In her provocative first feature, Chantal Akerman stars as an aimless young woman who leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip that leads to lonely love affairs with a male truck driver and a former girlfriend. With its famous real-time carnal encounter and its daring minimalism, Je tu il elle is Akerman's most sexually audacious film.

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