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The Punishment

France • 1h 3m

Directed by Jean Rouch • Documentary • 1962 • 64 minutes

An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.

"Extraordinary and extraordinarily rare movie about public misogyny."—Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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