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Pourquoi Paris ? (1962)

Pourquoi Paris ? poster
Directed by
Denys de La Patellière
Genre
comedy
Country
France
Runtime
1h 19m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young Belgian woman moves to Paris to study painting and become an artist. She takes classes at an academy, works in a Montmartre studio, models for photos, and designs a record cover for a singer while falling for a man she just met.

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What happens

Pourquoi Paris ? est un film français de Denys de La Patellière, sorti en 1963. 1963. Monique, une Belge, vient à Paris pour apprendre la peinture et devenir une artiste. Elle suit des cours à l'Académie et se retrouve dans un atelier à Montmartre. Pour terminer, elle va être mannequin-photo et elle va décorer une pochette de disque d'un chanteur. Elle aime Denis dont elle vient de faire la connaissance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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