Too Beautiful for You

• Gérard Depardieu: Bernard Barthélémy
• Josiane Balasko: Colette Chevassu
• Carole Bouquet: Florence Barthélémy
• François Cluzet: Pascal Chevassu
• Roland Blanche: Marcello
• Myriam Boyer: Geneviève

Too Beautiful for You ( Original title: belle pour toi Trop ) is a French film directed by Bertrand Blier from the year 1989.

Action

The southern French BMW dealer Bernard lives with his attractive wife Florence in a prestigious, classically styled house. His son brought him there, the music of Franz Schubert detail that accompanies the film.

From the first moment, Bernard falls in love with the rather staid and average looking Colette, which begins as a temporary secretary in his car dealership. The film told in short episodes of his life with the two women that plunge him into a deep dilemma. On one hand, his wife, who wants to fight for him avowedly - on the other hand, his mistress, who is married to the writer Pascal and despite the passionate affair has doubts about the sincerity of the feelings of her lover.

Some episodes are fictional, others give thoughts and fantasies of the people involved again. At the end of Bernard stands there with empty hands, for both women leave the undecided.

Criticism

" The more mundane history. Due to the exceptional nature of the production, which relies on the simultaneity of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and again is also impossible situations as circumstances, and by the elegant camera work is a fascinating cinematic experience Also impressive is the use of music. Despite sometimes dramatic dialogues an equally witty and intelligent exploration of love, men, women, and the cinema. "

" The author turns out to be an obsessed director craftsmen and chopped his story into tiny pieces. Each shot lasts seconds, scenes are started and stopped, picked up and forgotten. Blier has a pale video clip shot with a music carpet Schubert, misfortune and depth is promised, images that shine only for themselves, and sentences, the listless slogans same. "

Awards

International Film Festival of Cannes 1989

• Grand Prize of the Jury

César 1990

• Best Picture
• Best Director
• Best Actress
• Best Editing
• Best Screenplay

Nominated was the film for four more César:

• Best Actor
• Best Camera
• Best Art
• Best movie poster