That Old Dream That Moves

That Old Dream That Moves

Directed by Alain Guiraudie • 2001 • France
Starring Pierre Louis-Calixte, Jean-Marie Combelles, Jean Ségani

Alain Guiraudie’s’s singularly mesmerizing critical breakthrough unites many of the director’s signature concerns—queer desire, working-class rural life, and the dreamlike dimensions of the everyday—into a tour de force of subtle erotic tension. At a rundown factory about to be shuttered, the arrival of a young repairman awakens furtive lust amongst his fellow workers, permeating this world of men and machines with a pulsing homoerotic longing.

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That Old Dream That Moves
  • That Old Dream That Moves
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    That Old Dream That Moves

    That Old Dream That Moves

    Directed by Alain Guiraudie • 2001 • France
    Starring Pierre Louis-Calixte, Jean-Marie Combelles, Jean Ségani

    Alain Guiraudie’s’s singularly mesmerizing critical breakthrough unites many of the director’s signature concerns—queer desire, working-class rural life, and the dreamlike dimensions of t...

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  • Alain Guiraudie Interview
    17:45
    Alain Guiraudie Interview

    Alain Guiraudie Interview

    Get to know Alain Guiraudie, the director of the tantalizing comic thriller MISERICORDIA. In the following interview, Guiraudie (who is also a novelist) reflects on the differences between filmmaking and writing fiction, his fond fascination for small-town life, his goal of exploring eroticism th...

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