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PARTNERS (COMPLICES)

By | October 2009

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FEATURE! How youthful recklessness sculpts our lives as adults, or how love must be seized and reveled in, seem to be themes that might have crossed the director’s mind. But they never quite make it to the screen.

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PARTNERS (COMPLICES)

The French-Swiss feature "Partners" is about a pair of lonely middle-aged cops who can’t get a break. Herve Cagan (Gilbert Melki) is of ambiguous sexual...

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