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Suddenly (2002)

Suddenly poster
Original title
Tan de repente
Directed by
Diego Lerman
Genre
comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film
Country
Argentina, Netherlands
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A shy young woman working in a lingerie shop gets picked up by two strangers. They take her on a spontaneous road trip where she starts to figure out what she wants and who she is.

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What happens

Suddenly (Spanish: Tan de repente) is a 2002 Argentine and Dutch black-and-white comedy drama film directed by Diego Lerman and written by Lerman, María Meira, and Eloisa Solaas, based on the novel La prueba, written by César Aira. The drama features Tatiana Saphir, Carla Crespo, Veronica Hassan, among others. A young, naive clerk at a lingerie store learns about love and her own identity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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