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Filmed in 1979, released in 1986?


I'll probably have to wait a year or two for someone who knows the answer to visit this board to tell me why the film was released 7 years after filming, but okay.

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Wow, yes, it did take two years. The movie was filmed in two sections, partly in 1979 and partly in 1985.

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Malle got busy with other projects, and decided to come back to the town to add more footage capturing the change in mood after an economic downturn. The contrast is interesting. But perhaps the one constant is the gardener we saw at the beginning, still going strong at age 91.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.–J.B. Haldane

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