Emma Peeters: An Absurdist French Comedy About Suicide
by Gillian AndersonMonia Chokri as Emma
A woman struggling to make it as an actor in working-class Paris is starting to wonder if she will ever get a break. She takes acting classes where she is overlooked for the young hotties, lives in a tiny apartment, works an unsatisfying sales job, and does ineffectual singing bowl therapy. Since she hates everything about her life, she decides to kill herself on her 35th birthday, “the expiration date for actresses.” She begins working her way
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