The Prude (1986)

“Will be at the cinema Sunday night. Sorry”, this is what Manon, 18 years old, writes to her father after a year of absence. Pierre, the father and Ariane, his girlfriend, wait for her at the cinema. Ariane plays the different possible arrival of his daughter, but nothing calms the anxiety of Pierre. He asks his young team of actresses to play the role of Manon for him. When finally Manon comes out of the shadow ...
A tense dramatization of the reconciliation between father and daughter in an empty theatre, full of psychic hurts and perverse angers.