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The Milk of Human Kindness
(Le lait de la tendresse humaine)

Screening on Film
Directed by Dominique Cabrera.
With Patrick Bruel, Maryline Canto, Dominique Blanc.
France/Belgium, 2001, 35mm, color, 94 min.
French with English subtitles.

After giving birth to her third child, a woman flees her household and hides out in her neighbor’s apartment. As her husband searches desperately for her, the young mother takes comfort in the kindness of her neighbor and envies the woman’s respectability, not realizing that her caretaker is having an affair with a married man. An offbeat, romantic, black comedy, the film features strong performances from Cabrera’s ensemble.

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