Too beautiful for you
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Too beautiful for you |
| Original title | Trop belle pour toi |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bertrand Blier |
| script | Bertrand Blier |
| production | Bertrand Blier |
| music | Franz Schubert Francis Lai |
| camera | Philippe Rousselot |
| cut | Claudine Merlin |
| occupation | |
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Too beautiful for you (original title: Trop belle pour toi) is a French feature film in the form of a romantic comedy by Bertrand Blier from 1989, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival.
action
The southern French BMW dealer Bernard lives with his attractive wife Florence in a representative, classically furnished house. His son brings him closer to the music of Franz Schubert , which accompanies the entire film.
From the first moment, Bernard falls in love with the rather staid and average-looking Colette, who starts out as a temporary secretary in his car dealership. In short episodes, the film tells his life with the two women who plunge him into a deep dichotomy. On the one hand his wife, who avowedly wants to fight for him - on the other hand his lover, who is married to the writer Pascal and, despite the passionate affair, has doubts about the seriousness of her lover's feelings.
Different time levels, music by Schubert and Francis Lai (Where Do I Begin? (Love Story) ) provide a framework for the flow of the plot. Some episodes are fictional, others reflect the thoughts and fantasies of the people involved. In the end, Bernard stands there empty-handed because both women leave the undecided.
Reviews
“The rather everyday story becomes a fascinating cinematic experience thanks to the extraordinary type of staging, which relies on the simultaneity of yesterday, today and tomorrow and also reproduces impossible situations as realities, and the elegant camera work. The use of music is also impressive. In spite of the sometimes drastic dialogues, a funny and intelligent confrontation with love, men, women and the cinema. "
"'Too beautiful for you' is a treatise on love, with multiple refractions and variations and so splendid with profundity and noble furniture that not even Gerard Depardieu's usual berserk charm can prevail."
“The author turns out to be an obsessed handyman and chops up his story into tiny pieces. Every shot lasts for seconds, scenes are started and canceled, picked up and forgotten. Blier shot a pale video clip with a carpet of music that is supposed to promise Schubert, misfortune and depth, images that only shine for themselves, and sentences that resemble listless advertising slogans. "
Soundtrack
Music Franz Schubert, piano: Odette Gartenlaub édition CINE VALSE - DD PRODUCTIONS - ORLY FILMS -SEDIF
- Impromptu Opus 90 No 3
Music Franz Schubert, piano: Odette Gartenlaub édition CINE VALSE - DD PRODUCTIONS - ORLY FILMS -SEDIF
- ANDANTINO DE LA SONATA EN LA MAJEUR D 959
Music Franz Schubert, piano: Odette Gartenlaub édition CINE VALSE - DD PRODUCTIONS - ORLY FILMS -SEDIF
- ROSAMUNDE D 797 : Entr'acte no 2
Music Franz Schubert, Elly Ameling Dir. Kurt Masur , Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (uncredited) Philips 412 457.2 - (P) 12/2983
Music Franz Schubert, Melos Quartet DG 419 879.2 - (p) 7/1975
Music Franz Schubert, Elly Ameling - Dalton Baldwin Philips 420 870.2 (p) 7/1982
- SONATA POUR ARPEGGIONE ET PIANO D 821
Music Franz Schubert, Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) - Benjamin Britten (piano) Decca 417 833.2 - (p) 7/1968
- FIERABRAS D 796 Overture
Music Franz Schubert, cond. Paul Angerer Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart (uncredited) Panthéon D 07116 (p) 7/1983
Music Franz Schubert, Doris Soffel Pianist: Roland Keller Dir. Marinus Voorberg Acanta 498654 - (p) 1977
- DEUTSCHE MESSE D 872 : To the Sanctus
Music Franz Schubert, Tolz Boys Choir Dir. Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden Acanta 42409 (p) 1975
- GERMAN DANCES D 90 no 1
Music Franz Schubert, Dir. Horst Stein, Bamberger Symphoniker Ariola Eurodisc - (p) 1985
- INTERMEDIATE MUSIC Op. 26 no 3
Music Franz Schubert, Dir. Horst Stein Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Ariola Eurodisc - (p) 1985
- MESSE EN MI BEMOL MAJEUR D 950 : Sanctus
Music Franz Schubert, Dir. Wolfgang Sawallisch Société Pathé Marconi EMI - (p) 1983
- VALSE D 779 no 18
Music Franz Schubert, Alice Ader Le Chant du Monde 278875 (p) 1986
- LOVE STORY
Music Francis Lai, Editions 23 - Paris
Awards
Cannes International Film Festival 1989
The film was nominated for four more César:
Web links
- Too Beautiful for You in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Too Beautiful for You atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Too good for you in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Too beautiful for you. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 11, 2017 .
- ↑ As with nuts . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1990, pp. 316 ( online ).
- ↑ Ulrich Herrmann: The camera is a bottle. The film about the perfume: “Too beautiful for you!” By Bertrand Blier. Die Zeit, November 16, 1990, accessed on May 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Nominations and awards according to the Internet Movie Database