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Directed by Hal Hartley

The Cartographer’s Girlfriend

28m

Directed by Hal Hartley • 1987 • United States
Starring Marissa Chibas, George Feaster, Steven Geiger

A shy and introverted city surveyor has his quiet, scholarly world turned upside down when a young woman mysteriously appears in his apartment in this poetic, sometimes surreal look at male assumptions about women.

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