In 1972, as a first year student at The Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Rufus directed "Pernod Fils", a satire of heady foreign films with a completely fabricated language and nutty English subtitles. The film's star, Stephen Moore, a Berklee School of Music student at the time, also composed the music.
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Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.
