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Stereotypes (1991)

Stereotypes poster
Original title
Stéréotypes
Directed by
Jean-Marc Vallée
Genre
fantasy film
Country
Canada
Runtime
20 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man cheats on his wife. She turns into a monster and pulls him into a strange alternate world.

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What happens

Stereotypes (French: Stéréotypes) is a Canadian fantasy short film, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and released in 1991. The film centres on a woman who turns into a monster, and plunges her husband into a surreal alternate world, after he cheats on her. The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 14th Genie Awards, and Vallée won the Bourse Claude-Jutra for Most Promising Filmmaker at the 1993 Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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