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Le Chat (1971)

Le Chat poster
Directed by
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Genre
drama film, flashback film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
16
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 120 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An elderly married couple live in a crumbling house outside Paris. Their relationship unravels through silent resentments and a bitter conflict over the woman's cat.

melancholictenseslow-burnbleakcerebralquietly devastatingcharacter-drivenintrospective

What happens

Le Chat ([lə ʃa], English: The Cat) is a 1971 French-language drama film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and based on Georges Simenon's 1967 novel The Cat. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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