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A Very Curious Girl

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A Very Curious Girl is a 1969 French comedy-drama film directed, edited and co-written by Nelly Kaplan. Other English titles are Dirty Mary and Pirate's Fiancée. Plot Marie is a young woman who lives in sheer poverty in the fictional village and commune of Tellier (an allusion to La Maison Tellier) with her mother, a woman of obscure origins suspected to be a Romanichel sorcerer, and her pet buck. Marie and her mother are despised by the locals although Marie is also a sexual object for them, including her lesbian boss Irène. One day, when her mother dies after a hit-and-run accident and the locals do not even bother to bury her, Marie decides that things have to change and starts to charge people who have sex with her. Eventually, she plans to take revenge on those people who take advantage of her. Cast Bernadette Lafont as Marie Georges Géret as Gaston Duvalier, the village guard Michel Constantin as André, the projectionist Julien Guiomar as the Duke Jean Parédès as Monsieur Paul, the herbalist Francis Lax as Émile, the commune council member Claire Maurier as Irène, Marie's boss Marcel Pérès as Grandpa Pascal Mazzotti : Abbé Dard Jacques Masson : Hippolyte Duvalier, Gaston's son Henry Czarniak : Julien, Irène's farmhand Jacques Marin : Félix Lechat, the café owner Micha Bayard : Mélanie « La Goulette » Lechat, Félix's wife Fernand Berset : Jeanjean, the lingerie salesman Renée Duncan : Fifine (Delphine), Émile's wife Gilberte Géniat : Rose, the Duke's wife Claire Olivier : Marie's mother Louis Malle : Jésus, the Duke's Spanish farmhand Claude Makovski : Victor, the shop owner Score Georges Moustaki's soundtrack was released in the same year as the film. Histoire du Cirque (1:22) Duo (2:21) La Mort (2:08) Pierre et Nicole (2:44) Thème de Franca (1:37) A Lisbonne (fado) (1:37) Retour à L'hôtel (2:18) Le Scandale / Suite (11:40) Mona (1:31) Anne et Claude au Musée (2:27) Le Désespoir de Muriel (3:52) La Déclaration d'Amour (2:25) La Rupture (3.46) Epilogue (2:25) Une Petite Ile (1:30) Anne et Claude (2:05) Moi, Je Me Balance (2:46) Marche de Marie (2:35)

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A Very Curious Girl is a 1969 French comedy-drama film directed, edited and co-written by Nelly Kaplan. Other English titles are Dirty Mary and Pirate's Fiancée. Plot Marie is a young woman who lives in sheer poverty in the fictional village and commune of Tellier (an allusion to La Maison Tellier) with her mother, a woman of obscure origins suspected to be a Romanichel sorcerer, and her pet buck. Marie and her mother are despised by the locals although Marie is also a sexual object for them, including her lesbian boss Irène. One day, when her mother dies after a hit-and-run accident and the locals do not even bother to bury her, Marie decides that things have to change and starts to charge people who have sex with her. Eventually, she plans to take revenge on those people who take advantage of her. Cast Bernadette Lafont as Marie Georges Géret as Gaston Duvalier, the village guard Michel Constantin as André, the projectionist Julien Guiomar as the Duke Jean Parédès as Monsieur Paul, the herbalist Francis Lax as Émile, the commune council member Claire Maurier as Irène, Marie's boss Marcel Pérès as Grandpa Pascal Mazzotti : Abbé Dard Jacques Masson : Hippolyte Duvalier, Gaston's son Henry Czarniak : Julien, Irène's farmhand Jacques Marin : Félix Lechat, the café owner Micha Bayard : Mélanie « La Goulette » Lechat, Félix's wife Fernand Berset : Jeanjean, the lingerie salesman Renée Duncan : Fifine (Delphine), Émile's wife Gilberte Géniat : Rose, the Duke's wife Claire Olivier : Marie's mother Louis Malle : Jésus, the Duke's Spanish farmhand Claude Makovski : Victor, the shop owner Score Georges Moustaki's soundtrack was released in the same year as the film. Histoire du Cirque (1:22) Duo (2:21) La Mort (2:08) Pierre et Nicole (2:44) Thème de Franca (1:37) A Lisbonne (fado) (1:37) Retour à L'hôtel (2:18) Le Scandale / Suite (11:40) Mona (1:31) Anne et Claude au Musée (2:27) Le Désespoir de Muriel (3:52) La Déclaration d'Amour (2:25) La Rupture (3.46) Epilogue (2:25) Une Petite Ile (1:30) Anne et Claude (2:05) Moi, Je Me Balance (2:46) Marche de Marie (2:35)

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