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The Perfume of Yvonne

Directed by Patrice Leconte

Starring Jean-Pierre Marielle, Hippolyte Girardot

A romance set in the summer of 1958.

It is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye of her flamboyant elderly mentor. But in a season full of secrets, is truth the most elusive passion of all?