Twelve-year-old Antoine has two pleasures in life, Arabic dancing and visiting the voluptuous local crimper. And by middle age his passion is undimmed so he pursues and marries the timid Mathilde, a hairdresser. A delightful, quirky tale of love and obsession from the director of "Monsieur Hire".
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PICCADILLY (1929)
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Shosho is a maid in a swanky night-spot when she's spotted dancing by the club's rakish proprietor, Valentine Wilbur. Soon Shosho has usurped Mabel as the star dancer and object of Valentine's affections, setting the scene for a dramatic denouement. A tenderly restored work, with a new musical score by Neil Brand, and a truly hypnotic early screen goddess in the form of Anna May Wong.
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