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The Most Precious
of Cargoes
(La Plus Précieuse
des Marchandises)

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Post date April 3 2025
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Director – Michel Hazanavicius – 2024 – France – Cert. 12a – 81m ***** In Winter in a forest, a poor woodcutter’s wife rescues an abandoned baby thrown from a passing train and, despite her husband’s misgivings, raises the girl as her own – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, April 4th Once […]

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