11 Jun 1975
The Romantic Englishwoman
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.
Between Calais and Dover
A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.
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