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The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 7, 1962

Runtime

1h 53m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

56%

Original Title

Les sept péchés capitaux

Production Companies

Les Films Gibé, Franco London Films, Titanus

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Description

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.