Year of the Jellyfish
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Duration | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Thriller, Drama, Romance Language French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 14 November 1984 (French release)24 April 1987 (U.S. release) Writer Christopher Frank (novel), Christopher Frank (screenplay) Cast (Romain Kalides), (Chris), (Vic), (Marianne Lamotte), (Barbara), David Jalil (Jean-Paul)Similar movies Jamon Jamon , The Canyons , All Ladies Do It , Mad Max: Fury Road , Knock Knock , The Voyeur | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Year of the jellyfish 1984 trailer
L'année des méduses (The Year of the Jellyfish) is a French drama film inspired by a novel by Christopher Frank, directed by Frank himself with Valérie Kaprisky and Bernard Giraudeau. The film had a total of 1,554,641 admissions in France where it was the 23rd highest grossing film of the year.
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Plot
The teenage Chris is on holiday at St Tropez with her mother Claude, while her father remains at work in Paris. After seducing a married friend of her parents and undergoing an abortion, she is looking forward to new sexual adventures. Initially she falls for the older Romain, whose interest is in supplying young girls to rich men. For himself, Romain is far more interested in the mother Claude, who gradually thaws to his approaches and becomes his enthusiastic lover. Put out at this, Chris befriends a German married couple but, after a threesome in their hotel room, the husband leaves in disgust. While starting a romance with the abandoned wife, to thwart her mother Chris murders Romain.
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