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Gardens in Autumn

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NR,1hr 57min
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2006
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Synopsis: A French government minister named Vincent (Severin Blanchet) resigns from his official duties to experience a loose life of drink, women and good times in this satirical comedy from writer/director Otar Losseliani. His provincial mother (Michel Piccoli) watching bemused from the sidelines as her once-respectable son experiences the heretofore unexplored pleasures and pitfalls of the everyman, Vincent soon finds himself mixed up in a curious carnival of guns, exotic wild animals, and, of course, ... Full Synopsis
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In Gardens of Autumn humans and animals coexist on a platform of absurdity. Ostriches and elephants litter the background of director Otar Iosseliani's analysis of old age and politics, depicted as a ridiculous pageant of shifting power amidst a flummoxed globalized France. After being pushed out of office by a popular coup, Minister Vincent (Severin Blancet) wanders around Paris tracking down former ... Full Review
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