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Levinarium, No.

French original: “8 femmes” par François Ozon, 2002
(In English: “Eight Women” by François Ozon, 2002)

I am awfully sorry, but these 67 seconds are my most favourite movie scene ever. Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant and Isabelle Huppert are at their best here, in François Ozon’s “Eight Women”.

-Mais maman, qu’est-ce que tu fais?
-Rien du tout, on disputait avec Pierrette.
-Ce n’est pas ce que vous croyez.
-Ah non non, on ne croit rien, on voit.

-But Mom… what are you doing?
-Oh nothing, we’ve been quarrelling with Pierrette.
-That’s not what you think.
-Oh no no, we don’t think. We see.

First published in the Levinarium Telegram Channel (now closed and deleted)