Too Beautiful for You (Trop belle pour toi)

1989

Too Beautiful for You (Trop belle pour toi)

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Originally titled Trop Belle Pour Toi, French filmmaker Bertrand Blier's Too Beautiful for You takes several unexpected side trips while exploring its basic romantic-triangle plotline. Successful business executive and family man Gerard Depardieu falls hopelessly in love with his secretary Josiane Balasko. Flying in the face of motion picture convention, Depardieu's wife Carole Bouquet is drop-dead gorgeous, while Balasko is chubby and long in tooth! Further confounding the audience (in a most entertaining fashion) is the presence of Bouquet in a secondary role, as Balasko's woebegone neighbor. We don't know how he does it, but director Blier invests his funniest scenes in Too Beautiful for You with profound melancholy, while stirring up gales of laughter in the serious portions.

Cast

Gérard Depardieu
as Bernard Barthelemy
Carole Bouquet
as Florence Barthélémy
Josiane Balasko
as Colette Chevassu
Roland Blanche (II)
as Marcello
François Cluzet
as Pascal
Didier Benureau
as Leonce
Philippe Loffredo
as Tanguy
Sylvie Orcier
as Marie-Catherine
Stephano Auberghen
as Paula
Myriam Boyer
as Genevieve
Flavien Lebarbe
as The Son
Juana Marques
as The Daughter
Denise Chalem
as Lorene
Jean-Louis Cordina
as Gaby
Stephane Auberghen
as Paula
Francois Loffredo
as Tanguy
Philippe Faure
as Colette's Husband
Jean-Paul Farré
as Pianist
Richard Martin
as Man on the Tram
Sylvie Simon
as Receptionist
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Audience Reviews for Too Beautiful for You (Trop belle pour toi)

  • Dec 03, 2012
    Great bit of acting here to pull off the seeminly incomprehensible affair..then again, how many examples do we see of this in our lives?
    John B Super Reviewer
  • Dec 06, 2009
    Initially I found this strangely moving, but the deeper it went into the affair, the less I lost all sympathy for all the main characters. Excepting perhaps the wife, I did feel sorry for her. Nicely filmed and acted, but not the most enjoyable storyline. Kind of off-putting, quite honestly.
    Nicki M Super Reviewer
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