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A Very Curious Girl (1969)

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Original title
La Fiancée du pirate
Directed by
Nelly Kaplan
Genre
comedy drama
Country
France
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
18
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 45 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in a French village uses her charm and wits to upend the lives of the men who have mistreated her. She becomes a prostitute and uses her earnings to gain power and expose their hypocrisy.

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What happens

A Very Curious Girl (French: La Fiancée du pirate - The Pirate's Fiancée, also titled Dirty Mary) is a 1969 French comedy-drama film directed, edited and co-written by Nelly Kaplan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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