Trop belle pour toi (1989)
Country: FR
Technical: col 91m
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet, François Cluzet
Synopsis:
A car salesman who has everything deceives his beautiful wife with his dowdy temp, but finds he cannot be happy with either.
Review:
Like the master's "Charme Discret" or "Phantôme de la Liberté", the film rejects linear narrative in favour of a meditative circuitous approach, jumbling the order of events, having characters think aloud, saying what is not said in polite society, addressing each other in the imperfect tense; offputting at first, but adding form and substance to what is a pretty banal story. And the Schubert, the actors' wretched faces and Blier's oneiric shooting style make for total absorption.
Country: FR
Technical: col 91m
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet, François Cluzet
Synopsis:
A car salesman who has everything deceives his beautiful wife with his dowdy temp, but finds he cannot be happy with either.
Review:
Like the master's "Charme Discret" or "Phantôme de la Liberté", the film rejects linear narrative in favour of a meditative circuitous approach, jumbling the order of events, having characters think aloud, saying what is not said in polite society, addressing each other in the imperfect tense; offputting at first, but adding form and substance to what is a pretty banal story. And the Schubert, the actors' wretched faces and Blier's oneiric shooting style make for total absorption.
Country: FR
Technical: col 91m
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet, François Cluzet
Synopsis:
A car salesman who has everything deceives his beautiful wife with his dowdy temp, but finds he cannot be happy with either.
Review:
Like the master's "Charme Discret" or "Phantôme de la Liberté", the film rejects linear narrative in favour of a meditative circuitous approach, jumbling the order of events, having characters think aloud, saying what is not said in polite society, addressing each other in the imperfect tense; offputting at first, but adding form and substance to what is a pretty banal story. And the Schubert, the actors' wretched faces and Blier's oneiric shooting style make for total absorption.