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C'est la tangente que je préfère (1997)
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5 August 1998 (France)
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Sabine, an adolescent girl with a gift for mathematics becomes involved with Jiri, a 40-something man-of-the-theatre from Prague...
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I'd rather have cosine.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Julie Delarme | ... | Sabine |
 | Georges Corraface | ... | Jiri |
| Marie-Christine Barrault | ... | La prof de maths |
| Agnès Soral | ... | La mère de Sabine |
| Christophe Malavoy | ... | Le père de Sabine |
| Suzie | ... | Gabrielle |
| Anna Prucnal | ... | La femme blonde |
| Marie Laforêt | ... | Pétra la vérité |
| Françoise Michaud | ... | La prof de sciences-nat |
| Maxime Lombard | ... | Policier |
| Maurice Chevit | ... | Jean-Pierre |
| Louis Navarre | ... | Guy |
| Alix de Konopka | ... | La voisine |
| Bernard Sens | ... | Jan |
| Witold Heretynski | ... | Petr |
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Love, Math and Sex
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The title has a double meaning:the heroin likes tangent best because she's in love with maths.But her family is so wretched that she wants to make off (=prendre la tangente).
Nothing to get hung about though:the umpteenth story of young high school girl who falls in love with a forty-something brimming with Slavonic charm.Except for the numerous erotic scenes,that could fit the bill for such "nice" French made-for-TV series ,the likes of "Madame le Proviseur".Directing remains academic,and acting conventional,as far the two leads are concerned.
Interest lies elsewhere:Marie-Christine Barrault is very convincing as a generous maths teacher;Agnès Soral and mainly classy Malavoy are cast against type as two proles always fearing the bailiff.Too bad the relationship whizz kid heroine/ moronic parents is only skimmed over.
The dialogue,when it does not integrate maths in its lines remains trite and dull.But when the heroine says that her " derivative" turns negative that her lover is her "vector" or when she uses the probability in her father's problems it's pretty original.
If I remember well,the curve of the tangent function sometimes.tends towards infinity whereas the cosine one endlessly goes up and down:that's why I'd rather have cosine to describe this movie which fluctuates between bad and good.