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hearing that her husband, Paulette's father, was sent to the camps and died there. Paulette left her home after the war and found a job in Van der Beck’s School of
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In one of the dinners, a rabbit dish cooked earlier that day by the girls is served. Robert chokes on a rabbit bone and dies. After Robert, who was in charge of the school finances, dies, his wife
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concluding that the film "has its heart and mind in the right place when it comes to the 1960s archeology of patriarchy, French-style. But tonal unevenness – awkwardly balancing goofy farce, heavy-handed social satire, and earnest emotional directness – makes for a flimsy misfire."
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school stands for is wrong as it subjugates women. She is meant to go with the young women to a housekeeping fair in Paris meant for young women. Initially
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