Golden Eighties

Golden Eighties (1986)

Genres - Musical, Romance, Comedy  |   Sub-Genres - Musical Comedy, Urban Comedy  |   Run Time - 92 min.  |   Countries - Belgium, Switzerland, France  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Fannie Cottencon stars as Lilli, beauty salon owner and uncrowned queen of the shopping mall where the film, in its entirety, takes place. Delphine Seyrig costars as a mall boutique owner, suddenly confronted with her wartime lover. Before we're quite aware of it, the film has become a New Age Romeo and Juliet, complete with out-of-nowhere songs. Through plotlines as twisted as a tributy of the Colorado river, Cottencon's salon and Seyrig's boutique symbolically merge. Golden Eighties is known in the US as Window Shopping; its title was changed to avoid confusion with an earlier Chantal Akerman effort Les Annees 80s, also known as The Golden Eighties.

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consumer, ideals, love, love-letter, love-triangle, romance, short-stories, tragic-love, America, beauty [physical], employment, France, girl, gold, letter, life, mall, meeting, musical [play], plans, shop, store, wedding, wound [injury]