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Irma la Douce

A story of passion, bloodshed, desire and death... everything, in fact, that makes life worth living.

1963 · 2h 27m · Not Rated Comedy, Romance
Directed by Billy Wilder

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Overview

When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and creates an alter ego who’s to be her only customer.

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A good example of how a movie can be utterly characteristic of its maker and still fall with a resounding thud...

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Wilder's soft-centred cynicism provides frequent enough laughs without too many longueurs.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

Mr. Lemmon is little short of brilliant...

Bosley Crowther, New York Times

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