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My Man (1996)

Directed by Bertrand Blier

Overview

In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she’s thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He’s arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.

Length 99 minutes

Actors

Anouk Grinberg | Gérard Lanvin | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Olivier Martinez | Dominique Lollia | Dominique Valadié | Jacques François | Robert Hirsch | Bernard Fresson | Jacques Gamblin | Bernard Le Coq | Mathieu Kassovitz | Michel Galabru | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | Sabine Azéma | Roger Carel | Jean-Pierre Léaud | Jean-Philippe Écoffey | Ginette Garcin | Frédéric Pierrot | Bruno Abraham-Kremer | Aurore Clément | Nanou Garcia