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  • The Rake

    HONOUR AMONG THIEVES

    by nick scott Apr 05, 2018 3 minutes

    It is technically a rom-com, but A Little Romance — a 1979 basement-cinema treat, directed by George Roy Hill, of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid fame — couldn’t be more removed from any saccharine, Kleenex-sponsored Anne Hathaway vehicle.

    The first character we encounter, Daniel Michon, is a contender, like Holden Caulfield before him, to be considered an adolescent Rake Incarnate. A truanting film buff with a precocious intellect (on reading Heidegger:

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