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Direction
Resnais turns karaoke into cinema—every lip-sync reveals hidden longing.
Writing
Jaoui and Bacri's script: five lonely people, zero easy resolutions.
Production
Apartment-hunting as existential dread, shot in honeyed Resnais gold.

Director
Alain Resnais
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