La Nuit porte-jarretelles (English

English language

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 title: The Night Wears Suspenders) is a 1984 French

France

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 film directed by Virginie Thévenet

Virginie Thévenet

-Films with Virginie Thévenet as actress:* 1970 : Les Stances de Sophie, by Moshé Mizrahi* 1972 : Faustine et le Bel Été* 1972 : Les Zozos, by Pascal Thomas, Martine* 1976 : Small Change, by François Truffaut...

. The film stars Jezabel Carpi, Ariel Genet and Arielle Dombasle

Arielle Dombasle

Arielle Dombasle is a French-American singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach and Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Blue Villa...

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Synopsis

A young woman leads a timid and innocent young man in an initiation and exploration of Paris by night.

Analysis

The film is an odd mixture, with Rohmerian

Éric Rohmer

Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....

 cast and dialogues, mixed with a complacent night tour of the red-light districts of Paris, bordering on sexploitation

Sexploitation

Sexploitation, or "sex-exploitation", describes a class of independently produced, low-budget feature films generally associated with the 1960s and serving largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity. The genre is a subgenre of exploitation films...

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La Nuit porte-jarretelles got a César Award

César Awards 1986

The 1986 César Awards were hosted by Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault. The winners were:*Best Film:3 hommes et un couffin, directed by Coline SerreauL'Effrontée, directed by Claude MillerPéril en la demeure, directed by Michel DevilleSans toit ni loi, directed by Agnès VardaSubway,...

nomination (Best First Work) in 1986.