20 Jun 2006
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.
A Month With the Girls
The French female pioneer of immersion journalism, Maryse Choisy, who infiltrated in 1928 the prostitution underworld of Paris. Posing as a chambermaid, a lesbian bar dancer and more, she wrote a very successful and scandalous book about that avant-garde experience, and changed her mind about this world and these women's difficult condition.
Top Billed Cast
Jeanne Balibar Maryse Choisy older (Narrator & voice over)
Nine d'Urso Maryse Choisy younger (Narrator & voice over)
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