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Amateur is a 1994 crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Hal Hartley and starring Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Löwensohn and Damian Young. The story revolves around a former nun who becomes embroiled in pornography, violence and international crime.
Isabelle is a former nun trying to make a living writing pornography, who claims to be a nymphomaniac, although she has never had sex. She falls in love with Thomas, who is handsome, sensitive, but unfortunately, suffering from amnesia. They soon realize Thomas's past is linked to Sofia, a once...
Overview. A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.
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A former nun (Isabelle Huppert) helps an amnesiac (Martin Donovan) uncover his criminal past in upstate New York.
A romantic thriller revolving around sex, violence, and lost identity, this madcap tale is nevertheless a Hal Hartley film at heart, full of deadpan dialogue, eccentric behaviors, and absurdist twists. The glacial Isabelle Huppert delivers an iconic turn as a blasé ex-nun who dabbles in pornography!
Hal Hartley's movie - his most accessible and entertaining to date - starts with a man (Donovan) waking in a New York gutter, head bloodied, memory gone. Who is he? How did he get there?
