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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n| 2021\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 96′\u00a0 – ROMANCE, DRAMA \u201cSince last September, I\u2019ve done nothing but wait for a man \u2014 to call me and come to my house.\u201d Laetitia Dosch brings a depth and gravitas to Danielle Arbid\u2019s sexually explicit, clinical analysis of the female gaze in this story of romantic and erotic obsession. Boldly adapted from Annie Ernaux\u2019s Frank 1992 autobiographical novel,\u00a0Simple Passion\u00a0recounts the story of a French literature professor and divorced mother who is gradually, totally, consumed by her sensual and emotional desire for a mysterious Russian diplomat brought chillingly to life by Ukrainian ballet star Sergei Polunin.<\/span><\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SIMPLE PASSION | 2021\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 96′\u00a0 – ROMANCE, DRAMA Written by:\u00a0Danielle Arbid. Directed by:\u00a0Danielle Arbid. Starring:\u00a0Laetitia Dosch,\u00a0Sergei Polunin,\u00a0Lou-Teymour Thion, Caroline Ducey, Gr\u00e9goire Colin, Slimane Dazi. West Coast Premiere COLCOA 2021. In French with English subtitles. A Strand Releasing film. | \u201cSince last September, I\u2019ve done nothing but wait for a man \u2014 to call me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,11,45,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-drama","category-romance","category-women-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17988,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions\/17988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>Written by:\u00a0Danielle Arbid.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Danielle Arbid.
\nStarring:\u00a0Laetitia Dosch,\u00a0Sergei Polunin,\u00a0Lou-Teymour Thion, Caroline Ducey, Gr\u00e9goire Colin, Slimane Dazi.
\nWest Coast Premiere COLCOA 2021<\/strong>.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Strand Releasing film. |<\/span><\/p>\n
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