Pentimento (film)

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Pentimento
Directed by Tonie Marshall
Produced by Charles Gassot, Laurent Ferrier
Written byTonie Marshall, Sylvie Granotier
Music by Steve Beresford
Cinematography Pascal Lebègue
Edited by Luc Barnier
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Distributed byAMLF
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Pentimento is a 1989 French comedy film directed and written by Tonie Marshall. It was the debut of Marshall as director. [1]

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Lucie (Patricia Dinev) finds out that her father, whom she never knew, recently died. She reaches out how to go to his funeral and she rushes to the cemetery. She arrives at the ceremony and falls in love with a man that could be her brother. Lucie later discovers that she went to the wrong part of the graveyard and she was not related to anybody at the funeral. [2]

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References

  1. Barnes, Mike (2020-03-12). "Tonie Marshall, Writer and Director of 'Venus Beauty,' Dies at 68". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  2. "Pentimento (1989)". en.unifrance.org. Retrieved 2021-06-26.