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17 year old Pierre heads off to spend his summer holidays on the Canary Islands with his parents. However, when his father is killed in a car accident, the grieving Pierre is left alone with his prostitute mother (Huppert) who, along with her partners in crime Rea (Preiss) and Hansi (de Caunes), inducts her son into a world of sexual transgression, illicit desire and taboo-busting libertinism...
Christophe Honore handles this heady philosophical blend of eroticism, spiritualism and morbidity with a bold stylistic vigour, masterfully adapting George Bataille's violent, magnificent and scandalous 1966 novel.
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