Around a Small Mountain
Contemporary Cinema
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1h 26m
Directed by Jacques Rivette | 86 mins | 2009
Rivette’s swan song shows the French New Waver going out in typically playful style with a circus yarn starring the legendary Jane Birkin as a bohemian performer with a secret. A passing wanderer (Sergio Castellitto) is entranced by her family’s traveling troupe in what becomes a delicate celebration of the mysteries of performance and the changing fortunes of life.
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