Word: tautou
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...film is mostly confined to the Venus Beauty Institute, whose glass storefront is used to great cinematographic advantage. Angele dispenses creams, ointments, and depilatories while enduring the quirky vanities of clients. For help she has pink-uniformed co-workers: Marie (Audrey Tautou), at twenty and lovely, is the target of an elderly widow's special attention, Samantha (Mathilde Seigner) attempts suicide under the duress of heavy foreshadowing. But these characters are like snapshots, brief though believable portraits. Other than Angele, the film's characters are never confusing enough to be understood...