Lio
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Love Like Poison
(2010)Teenaged Anna comes home from her Catholic boarding school to discover that her father has left. Her mother, devastated, has confined herself in the company of the local priest, while Anna clings to her beloved grandfather. Amidst her grief, Anna also grows close to Pierre, a free-spirited - and atheist - teenager. As Anna prepares for her confirmation, her budding desire for Pierre shakes her faith. She longs to give herself over, body and soul... but doesn't know if God should be the recipient or someone else...

Golden Eighties
(1986)You can almost smell the hairspray in Akerman’s exuberant but subversive musical about the many romantic entanglements of salon workers in a shopping mall basement. Its natty 1980s style, witty song lyrics, rapturous dance sequences, not to mention a gloriously bitchy male-suited quartet, deliver all the joys of the genre.