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89 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

Nearly 30 years-old, Hélène still looks like a teenager. She is the author of powerful texts with corrosive humor. It is part, as she says herself, of a "badly calibrated lot, not entering anywhere". Her telepathic poetry speaks of her world and of ours. She accompanies a director who adapts her work to the theater, she talks with a mathematician ... Yet Helene can not talk or hold a pen, she has never learned to read or write. It when she turns 20 that her mother discovers that she can communicate by arranging letters on a sheet of paper. One of the many mysteries of the one that calls herself Babouillec ...
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
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Hélène Nicolas
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Véronique Truffert
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Julie Bertuccelli directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in France. Dialogue in French.
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