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A revisited film-noir in color with Chinatown

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  • Jul 6th, 2017
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    A classic of the neo-noir genre directed by Roman Polanski in 1974, Chinatown is a film set in Los Angeles in the 1930’s. Starring Jack Nicholson who plays the role of Jake Gittes, a private detective haunted by the time where he was making his round in Chinatown, he got hired to expose a tawdry affair […]

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