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Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes79%
Metacritic53/100
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
111 audience votes
Key crew
- Hal HartleyWriter
- Hal HartleyDirector
Cast
- Isabelle HuppertIsabelle
- Martin DonovanThomas Ludens
- Elina LöwensohnSofia Ludens
- Damian YoungEdward, Jaque's Accountant
- Chuck MontgomeryJan, Jaque's Goon
- Dave SimondsKurt, Jaque's Goon
- Pamela StewartOfficer Patsy Melville
- Erica GimpelIrate Woman
- Jan Leslie HardingWaitress
- Terry AlexanderFrank, the Cook
- Holt McCallanyUsher
- Hugh PalmerWarren
Stills
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Themes
memory lossdeadpanbaffled