The Eighties

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The Eighties ★★½ 1983

A comic, pseudo-documentary romp through the making of a musical. Not just another dime-a-dozen song-and-dance flick, but plays with the genre with humor and intelligence, treating us to an insider's view of a performance arranged at a shopping plaza, from the rigorous auditions to the tedium of the production of songs and routines. Treated in a light-hearted, sensitive, just on the verge of laughable manner, it concludes with 30 minutes of song and dance. In French with English subtitles. 86m/C VHS . FR Aurore Clement, Lio, Magali Noel, Pascale Salkin; D: Chantal Akerman; W: Chantal Akerman, Jean Gruault.

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