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6.8/10   1,053 votes
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Director:
Bertrand Blier
Writer:
Bertrand Blier (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
April 1990 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Plot:
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
6 wins & 7 nominations more
User Comments:
Bravo Blier more (9 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Josiane Balasko ... Colette Chevassu

Gérard Depardieu ... Bernard Barthélémy (as Gerard Depardieu)
Carole Bouquet ... Florence Barthélémy / La voisine de Colette
François Cluzet ... Pascal Chevassu
Roland Blanche ... Marcello
Myriam Boyer ... Geneviève
Denise Chalem ... Lorène
Didier Bénureau ... Léonce
Philippe Loffredo ... Tanguy
Stéphane Auberghen ... Paula
Jean-Louis Cordina ... Gaby
Jean-Paul Farré ... Le pianist
Richard Martin ... Man on the Tram
Philippe Faure ... Le mari de Colette
Juana Marques ... La fille
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Too Beautiful for You (USA)
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Runtime:
91 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Australia:M | Iceland:L | Germany:16 | Finland:S | Sweden:7 | USA:R | UK:18
Company:
Ciné Valse more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Colette Chevassu: Beauty hurts. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Grosse fatigue (1994) more
Soundtrack:
Wiegenlied more

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10 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Bravo Blier, 7 April 2004
10/10
Author: alleyne from London UK

Very few directors are prepared to take the sort of liberties Blier does, both in terms of subject matter and the manner of telling the story. "Trop Belle Pour Toi" is perhaps his most accessible film, telling the story of a successful man with a beautiful wife who unaccountably falls in love with his dumpy secretary. Depardieu is wonderful in this, utterly bewildered by his predicament, and the noted comedienne Balasko is radiant as a woman in love.

The style is almost cubist, the celebrated "beginning middle and end but not necessarily in that order", and alternative storylines are proposed and discarded at whim, to the evident confusion of some viewers. Blier has often gone all out to shock but that's less evident here, however his audacious humour remains intact. Not one for the viewer who likes to sit back and be told a straight story but for the rest of us, a joy from start to finish.

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