L'Odeur de la mandarine (2015)
- Directed by
- Gilles Legrand
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 24 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In wartime France, a mother and her child take shelter at a retired general's estate. She marries him under an agreement to have no children but their marriage faces strains leading her to an affair with a horse keeper.
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What happens
The Scent of Mandarin (French: L'Odeur de la mandarine) is a 2015 French drama film directed by Gilles Legrand. It stars Olivier Gourmet and Georgia Scalliet. It was nominated for two César Awards at the 41st César Awards. The mother and her child have to seek shelter under the manor of kind and rich retired general. He and the mother decide to marry but they plan to have no children. The general and the mother having trouble in bed. The general decides to satisfy through prostitution. The mother quite piss about this and decide to hump with the horse keeper who has already kept an eye on her for sometime. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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