Eugénie Grandet
Southsea Cinema Southsea Community Cinema & Arts Centre, 1-3 Palmerston Road, Southsea, United KingdomSumptuous costume adaptation from the oft filmed novel by Honoré de Balzac.
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Sumptuous costume adaptation from the oft filmed novel by Honoré de Balzac.
Félix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugénie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favourable view of the handsome suitors who rush to ask for his daughter’s hand. Nothing should damage the colossal fortune he hides from everyone. The sudden arrival of Grandet’s nephew, a ruined, orphaned Parisian dandy, turns the young girl’s life upside down.
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Eugénie Grandet
Southsea Cinema Southsea Community Cinema & Arts Centre, 1-3 Palmerston Road, Southsea, United KingdomSumptuous costume adaptation from the oft filmed novel by Honoré de Balzac.
Eugénie Grandet
Edinburgh - Institut Français d'Ecosse West Parliament Square, Edinburgh, United KingdomSumptuous costume adaptation from the oft filmed novel by Honoré de Balzac.
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