If you loved Germinal, try Zusammen ist man weniger allein
Eine Brücke zwischen einem Film, den du schon gesehen hast, und einem, den kaum jemand kennt. Das teilen sie, und was der zweite macht, was der erste nicht macht.
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Both films are directed by Claude Berri, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Germinal, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Zusammen ist man weniger allein is
One imagines this film played very well in France. A sick woman ends up living with two men. This sounds like the setup for both a joke and a sensitive drama, and it manages to be neither.
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