Beautiful Minds (film)

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Beautiful Minds
French Presque
Directed by Bernard Campan
Alexandre Jollien
StarringBernard Campan
Alexandre Jollien
Release date
  • 26 August 2021 (2021-08-26)(FFA)
Running time
92 min
CountriesFrance
Switzerland
LanguageFrench

Beautiful Minds (French : Presque) is a 2021 French-Swiss comedy-drama film directed by Bernard Campan and Alexandre Jollien. [1] [2]

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  1. Silvestro, Ivo (2022-04-07). "'Presque', storia di un'insolita amicizia". laRegione Ticino (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  2. "Pézenas : Bernard Campan et Alexandre Jollien tournent un film dans le centre-ancien". Midi Libre (in French). 2020-06-18. Retrieved 2022-09-28.