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Charlotte's (Macha Méril) romantic interest oscillates between her jealous husband Pierre (Philippe Leroy) and passionate lover Robert (Bernard Noël), but an unplanned pregnancy soon forces her to choose. Jean-Luc Godard's underappreciated eighth feature takes a sharp look at modern bourgeois life through the lonely figure of Charlotte, trapped between her tentative affections and the siren call of consumer culture.

Former sex worker Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) is determined to start a new life with her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), whom she had previously abandoned. But her aspirations to give him the respectable bourgeois existence she never had are threatened when her pimp (Franco Citti) comes back into the picture.

In 1979, filmmaker Trent Harris met an eccentric Olivia Newton John fan named "Groovin' Gary" in a Salt Lake City parking lot. Intrigued, Harris followed his subject's preparations of an awkward, but inspired drag performance as "Olivia-Newton Dawn" for his hometown talent show. In 1981, Harris cast a young (and then unknown) Sean Penn to play "Groovin' Larry" in a fictionalized short film about their encounter. And finally in 1985, Harris recruited oddball actor Crispin Glover to star in an campy, inspirational short film as "The Orkly Kid."