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Description acceptable. The director simply instructed the central actor to treat this scene as “between life and death” before he performed it in two takes without rehearsing. As the central character spins around wildly, this scene is interrupted by credits in which the actors’ names fade in one by one, (15[1])before cutting back to that man standing completely still. Immediately before this sequence, (15[1])the central character silently makes his bed before a shot passes from his (*) tattoo reading “Serve the good cause and die” to a vein pulsing in his bicep. (10[1])This sequence begins as the sole character, clad entirely in black, smokes while leaning against a large mirror with diagonal twinkling lights. For 10 points, identify this scene in which Galoup passionately dances to “The Rhythm of the Night” in a Djibouti nightclub, intercut with the credits of a Claire Denis film. ■END■

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