2008 · comedy · drama
The Girl from Monaco
Directed by Anne Fontaine1h 35m2008
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil, who turns him into a complete wreck... Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put everything back in order... Or will he ?
Our read: The Girl from Monaco (2008) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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