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That Old Dream That Moves

Newly Added • 52m

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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