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Twiggy is a french film of genre Drama directed by Emmanuelle Millet with Christa Theret

Twiggy (2011)

Twiggy
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Length 1h21
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OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Comedy-drama
Rating58% 2.9051952.9051952.9051952.9051952.905195

Twiggy or La brindille is a 2011 French drama film directed by Emmanuelle Millet.

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Sarah is 19 years old. She is a student in a museum in Marseille where she hopes to soon be tenured and resided in a home for young workers. Young woman alone, she is happy in this life. Fainting on the stairs of the museum when she wears a canvas will abruptly end this : the museum not hiring her anymore, without work, she has to leave her home, and above all, when nothing in her body would have left imagine, she learns that she is six months pregnant. She did a pregnancy denial and can not abort.

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