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Dry Cleaning

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Jean-Marie (Charles Berling) and Nicole Kunstler (Miou-Miou) have been married for 15 years and make a living managing a dry-cleaning service in a small French town. Their unexciting routine is disrupted after seeing brother-and-sister duo Loic (Stanislas Merhar) and Marilyn (Mathilde Seigner) perform a sultry nightclub routine. When Loic comes to their store, the couple strikes up a friendship with the siblings. Loic's desire for both husband and wife causes tension when he moves in with them.

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Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle Rated: 3/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Rated: 3/5 Aug 7, 2008 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Jul 3, 2005 Full Review Andy Klein Los Angeles CityBeat Rated: 4/5 Aug 5, 2004 Full Review Michael W. Phillips, Jr. Goatdog's Movies Rated: 3.5/5 Feb 28, 2002 Full Review Arthur Lazere culturevulture.net stimulates ongoing thinking and plants a solid emotional whammy that cannot be ignored Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member http://betterdryervent.com/tucson-az Dryer Vent cleaning tucson Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Highly surprising and interesting film that is always provocative, but never pushes the envelope so far as to be shocking. Which is one of the major reasons it works so very well. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Incroyable! Je savais pas à quoi m'attendre, vraiment fort! Et j'ai toujourds aimà (C) Miou-Miou Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Les acteurs sont bons et le film joue bien sur l'ambiguïté des sentiments; mais l'ensemble reste pourtant assez 'froid', ce qui est un peu dommage... Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Perhaps only French (and sometimes Spanish too) Cinema can make taboo stories like this so sexy, beautiful, stylish, twisting & intriguing. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Intoxicating. It does stress you out, indeed. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Jean-Marie (Charles Berling) and Nicole Kunstler (Miou-Miou) have been married for 15 years and make a living managing a dry-cleaning service in a small French town. Their unexciting routine is disrupted after seeing brother-and-sister duo Loic (Stanislas Merhar) and Marilyn (Mathilde Seigner) perform a sultry nightclub routine. When Loic comes to their store, the couple strikes up a friendship with the siblings. Loic's desire for both husband and wife causes tension when he moves in with them.
Director
Anne Fontaine
Producer
Philippe Carcassone, Alain Sarde
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (DVD)
Jul 19, 2005
Box Office (Gross USA)
$142.4K
Runtime
1h 37m
Sound Mix
Surround