Le Beau Mariage
- Béatrice Romand: Sabine
- André Dussollier: Edmond
- Féodor Atkine: Simon
- Arielle Dombasle: Clarisse
- Huguette Faget: Maryse
- Thamila Mezbah: Sabine's mother
- Sophie Renoir: Lise
- Hervé Duhamel: Frédéric
- Pascal Greggory: Nicolas
- Virginie Thévenet: Bride
- Denise Bailly: Comtesse
- Vincent Gauthier: Claude
- Anne Mercier: secretary
- Catherine Rethi: client
- Patrick Lambert: train Santander
The beautiful wedding is a French relationship drama by Éric Rohmer from the year 1982.
Action
Sabine is nearing her degree in art history and decides to roll up their lives. She has no desire for relationships with married men and ended her affair with painter Simon. She decides to get married and the money of the husband want to be dependent, even if they do not know who will be the husband. Nevertheless, she shares her plan with her best friend Clarisse and her former friend Claude. In addition to her private life, she is also increasingly questioned her profession, she likes her job as an assistant in the not too antique shop by Maryse. She sees herself more as artistic type and admires Clarisse who earned their livelihood among them the painting of lampshades.
Only reluctantly comes Sabine as a guest to the wedding of Clarisseses brother. Here Clarisse provide it before her cousin Edmond, who works as a lawyer in Paris. Both are done to each other, but Edmond is called to an appointment and therefore leaves the party after a few minutes. Sabine nonetheless believes to have found in Edmond the man she will marry one day. The longer they do not again see him, the more certain it is, however, about her feelings for Edmond.
She knows that he is looking for a certain Vasenart, and give him such a purchase, really wanted to make her boss. During the subsequent meal Sabine talks too much, what Edmond initially so amused as irritated. The next time he resists her attempts to meet him in Paris, over the phone. They in turn announces their jobs when they Maryse is due to the vases sold for speech. Sabine Edmond invites you to her birthday and suffers almost a collapse, as it seems like he can not get over. When he arrives too late, Sabine pulls him after a short time in her room and caught him off guard with their direct and hasty Art He leaves rushed the celebration and can be the next time by his secretary deny phone. Sabine finally find him in Paris and both speak off. Edmond explained that he indeed find attractive, but not love. In addition, he wanted to go ahead in a relationship more or at least be on par with the views of his partner. Sabine leaves his practice angry, but has calmed down a short time later. Before Clarisse she notes that there are still more men. Even at its next train to Paris, she finally begins to flirt with a passenger.
Production
The beautiful wedding came as the second part of Rohmer's series of comedies and proverbs ( Comédies et Proverbes ). The shooting took place in Paris, Le Mans and balloon. The film was released on May 19, 1982 in the French cinema and ran on July 5, 1985, in the German cinemas. On German television, the film was first seen on 14 September 1988 on ZDF, where he ran The beautiful marriage under the title. In 2006, he was released on DVD.
Synchronization
Criticism
The filmdienst called The beautiful wedding a " subtle and profound comedy about the desperate search for happiness of the people about the problem of prefabricated gender roles and the uncertainty and inconsistency of human emotions. " For Cinema, the film was a " finely parsed chaos of feelings."
Awards
At the International Film Festival in Venice in 1982 Béatrice Romand won the Golden Phoenix as Best Actress. Éric Rohmer was in 1983 nominated for a César for Best Original Screenplay.