Too Beautiful for You (Trop belle pour toi)

1989

Too Beautiful for You (Trop belle pour toi) (1989)

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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.

Rating:

R
Genre:

Art House & International, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed By:

Bertrand Blier
Written By:

Bertrand Blier
In Theaters:

Sep 22, 1989 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Sep 2, 2003
Runtime:

91 minutes
Studio:

Cine Valse

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)

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 Ballantine

Super Reviewer

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.