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The Essential Jacques Demy

Les horizons morts

8m 32s

Directed by Jacques Demy • 1951 • France

Jacques Demy makes a rare on-screen appearance as the star of LES HORIZONS MORTS (“The Dead Horizons”), his debut dramatic short from 1951, about a young man suffering from a broken heart.

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