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Marc, a young Belgian car enthusiast and apprentice hairdresser, his girlfriend, and their legal and illegal attempts to get a Porsche for his first race.
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"If you're in the States, it seems there's a 99% chance you won't get a chance to see this consistently entertaining film, save for the outside possibility it's shown in a big-city arthouse theater. As you might've read from the description above, it concerns Marc (a typically charming, uncharacteristically manic Jean-Pierre Leaud), an automobile-obsessed young hairdresser in Brussels struggling to obtain money needed to finance the car he needs for an upcoming race. With no assistance from his coworkers, Marc enlists the help of Michele, the loyal girlfriend he keeps a..."
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Director Jerzy Skolimowski did not speak French, so his music composer Krzysztof Komeda served as interpreter on set.
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Marc, a young Belgian car enthusiast and apprentice hairdresser, his girlfriend, and their legal and illegal attempts to get a Porsche for his first race.