The beautiful girl

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Movie
German title The beautiful girl
Original title La belle personne
Country of production France
original language French , Italian , English , Russian
Publishing year 2008
length 97 minutes
Rod
Director Christophe Honoré
script Christophe Honoré,
Gilles Taurand
production Sophie Barrat ,
Florence Dormoy ,
Joëy Faré
music Alex Beaupain
camera Laurent Brunet
cut Chantal Hymans
occupation

The beautiful girl is a French drama directed by Christophe Honoré from 2008. The screenplay was written by the director together with Gilles Taurand based on the 1678 novel La Princesse de Clèves by Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette . The Franco-German television channel Arte was involved in the production of the love drama. The young actress Léa Seydoux can be seen in the title role .

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After her mother's death, 16-year-old Junie moves to live with her aunt in Paris. Her cousin Matthias immediately introduces her to his circle of friends and soon the beautiful student is entangled in a complicated network of friendship, love and secrets. Her Italian teacher Nemours is so fascinated by her beauty that he secretly falls in love with her. For this reason, he also ended his simultaneous relationships with the history teacher Florence and the student Marie. To everyone's surprise, the shy outsider Otto gets the chance to win Junie's heart. Apart from the fact that she occasionally behaves strangely cool towards him, it is evidently a close friendship.

During the language class and other brief encounters with Nemours, Junie senses his interest and feelings without his ever having expressed them, and therefore tries to avoid him. She is even considering changing her place of residence and thus also the school in order to prevent her from reciprocating his love in time. But the tide is turning. Ultimately, she doesn't have the strength to evade Nemours' desires. Contrary to her declared intentions, she suddenly seeks his presence. Otto finds out about this and, out of jealousy, throws himself off the balustrade of the school building to his death.

Since Junie Nemours is absent from classes, he takes 6 months off sick leave. He doesn't want to stand in the way of the education of his loved ones. Nevertheless, one day he follows her on the way home. He can't resist Junie's attraction. She drifts with him for a few hours. Then she immediately falls back into her usual melancholy, with the certainty that their love for both of them will not last forever. Because the attractive Nemours is sought after by many women. She does not appear at the next agreed meeting. She has now implemented her plan to leave Paris because of Nemours.

Background information

The novel by Madame de La Fayette , on which the plot is based, was filmed a total of four times:

Cameo

Chiara Mastroianni has a brief guest appearance in The Beautiful Girl . She played the main role of Catherine de Clèves in the 1999 film adaptation of Manoel de Oliveira's novel, The Letter .

Trivia

While the clique went to the cinema, the 1989 film Yaaba - Grandmother was shown on the screen.

The actor Louis Garrel was allowed to have a say in the creation of his role during the creation of the script. So he chose to become an Italian teacher without knowing the Italian language, which was quite a surprise to Honoré. Was he assuming good language skills, since Garrel's fiancée Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is Italian.

The role names Nemours, Henri, Catherine, Marie and Matthias de Chartres were adopted from the novel. Marie was named after the Scottish Queen Maria Stuart , Catherine and Henri after the French ruling couple Caterina de 'Medici and Henry II .

Film music

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ prisma.de: The beautiful girl
  2. ^ Film staff in the IMDb database
  3. ↑ The beautiful girl in the online film database
  4. ↑ Background information on the film The Loyalty of Women on allocine.fr (French)
  5. ↑ a b IMDb Trivia
  6. ↑ IMDb soundtrack
  7. ↑ Soundtrack of the film IMDb