Too Beautiful for You

1989 [FRENCH]

Drama / Romance

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 67% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 3220 3.2K

Director

Bertrand Blier Photo
Bertrand Blier

Top cast

Myriam Boyer Photo
Myriam Boyer as Geneviève
Carole Bouquet Photo
Carole Bouquet as Florence Barthélémy / La voisine de Colette
François Cluzet Photo
François Cluzet as Pascal Chevassu
Gérard Depardieu Photo
Gérard Depardieu as Bernard Barthélémy
720p.BLU
843.7 MB
1280*544
French 2.0
NR
us  
24 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jotix100 8 / 10

Beauty is in the mind of the beholder

Reviewed by selffamily 8 / 10

intriguing and beautiful

I have just finished watching this film, and it is probably too soon to write a review. However, the music is swirling through my head, and the beautiful photography and scenes are fresh in my mind. The glossy elegant wife and the warm but ordinary woman who is the temp at the husband's car retail outlet are both extraordinary women. The wife for her killer intelligence and frankness (now that's a wedding speech that is unusual)and the outrageously warm,sexy woman who falls for and, I suppose, seduces her husband. Yes, it does jump about a bit, and one is never sure with the conversations if that is normal behaviour (in which case, they all have issues). Gerard Depardieu could melt the paint off the walls with his eyes, and his acting has depth indeed. A thought-provoking film, and an absorbing one. Recommended if you like more than a chick flick.
Reviewed by mjneu59 6 / 10

the eye of the beholder, so forth

Bertrand Blier's story of love at first sight between a successful auto salesman and his older, unglamorous secretary does more than simply dispel the skin-deep myth of physical beauty. Gérard Depardieu describes his new lover as "not beautiful, but nice", but his aristocratic young wife dismisses her for being 'common', setting up a conflict not between age and beauty but between opposing social classes, with a proletarian lug who married into the upper crust becoming justifiably mushy over someone less pretentious than his wife. It sounds like fun, but anyone expecting a lightweight romantic farce will be disappointed to find something closer to an intellectual exercise in style, designed around an exaggerated sense of melodrama and several odd, operatic gestures: characters thinking out loud in public or engaging in third-person soliloquies, and so forth. Not to mention, in an obscure ongoing joke, a few outspoken criticisms of the music of Franz Schubert.
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