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Thus began Antoine’s Downgoing / Ainsi commença le déclin d’Antoine

by Paul Rigoux

(Fiction, France, 2021, 22', C, En ST)

with Mélodie Adda, Abraham Wapler

Antoine – a grieving loner – spends his days in a café on the Place de Clichy watching people. Every day, he sees a woman he calls Albertine get out of the metro and go to the cinema. Today, he takes it upon himself to talk to her.

Paul Rigoux

Paul Rigoux was born in Bordeaux. After a Master’s degree in film law and a diploma in distribution at the Fémis, Ainsi commença le déclin d’Antoine, his first short film.

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