Life is a Very Strange Thing
Synopsis
Frédéric has been many things: a young rebel in Paris, ethnomusicologist, executive of a multinational garbage business. After decades living abroad he returns to a France that is familiar but on edge, reeling from terrorist attacks and a powerful resurgence of nationalist politics. Life is a very strange thing is a compelling and personal reflection on past events that shape the present.
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