A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
(1972)
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A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
(1972)
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Bernadette Lafont | ... |
Camille Bliss
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Claude Brasseur | ... |
Maître Murene
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Arthur
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Guy Marchand | ... |
Roger, aka Sam Golden
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| André Dussollier | ... |
Stanislas Prévine
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Anne Kreis | ... |
Hélène
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Philippe Léotard | ... |
Clovis Bliss
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Gilberte Géniat | ... |
Isobel Bliss
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Michel Delahaye | ... |
Marchal
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Danièle Girard | ... |
Florence Golden
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Jérôme Zucca | ... |
L'enfant cinéaste amateur
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Gaston Ouvrard | ... |
Le vieux gardien de prison /
Old prison warder
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Martine Ferrière | ... |
La secrétaire de la prison /
Prison Secretary
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Jacob Weizbluth | ... |
Alphonse, le muet /
Alphonse, the mute
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Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets in prison Camille Bliss to interview her. Camille is accused to have murdered her lover Arthur and her husband Clovis. She tells Stanislas her life and her love affairs... Written by Yepok
Like Michael Winner, Truffaut thinks a feminist movie would be about a sexually promiscuous woman who turns the tables on a serious of idiotic men who are so caricatured that they bear little relation to the real oppressors facing women at this time, especially in institutionally misogynistic France.
I should really like this film, it has everything I wanted - directed by the maker of my three desert-island films; magic realism; a Chinese-whispers narrative structure; bawdy comedy; grotesques; superb performances. Bernadette Lafont is sprightly in the lead role, escaping all the traps men lay for her (including her director). Andre Dussolier is sensational is his first role as the intellectual, spectacles-wearing professor who can't see beyond his own nose, and Guy Marchand is hilarious as a spectacularly vain rock star.
All these things are good. The film isn't. Go figure.