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Sympathy in Summer (1971)

Sympathy in Summer poster
Directed by
Antony I. Ginnane
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 02m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young university student makes a film about a brief summer romance. It is influenced by French new wave directors.

1960s french new wave inspiredexperimentalyouthfulreflectivestudent film

What happens

Sympathy in Summer is a 1971 film directed by Antony I. Ginnane when he was a 19-year-old university student. It was partly financed by Melbourne University Film Society and was heavily financed by the films of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Alain Resnais. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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