Je vous trouve très beau (2005)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Isabelle Mergault

Writer:

Isabelle Mergault (writer)

Release Date:

11 January 2006 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Local Blockbuster | Moral Transformation | Old Woman | Romania | Farmer

Awards:

2 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Michel Blanc	...	Aymé Pigrenet
Medeea Marinescu	...	Elena
Wladimir Yordanoff	...	Roland Blanchot
Benoît Turjman	...	Antoine
Eva Darlan	...	Mme Marais
Elisabeth Commelin	...	Françoise
Valérie Bonneton	...	Maître Labaume
Julien Cafaro	...	Thierry
Valentin Traversi	...	Jean-Paul
Raphaël Dufour	...	Nicolas
Choukri Gabteni	...	Le patron du café
Agnès Boury	...	Huguette
Tadrina Hocking	...	Nicole
Nathalie Jouin	...	Sylvie
Renée Le Calm	...	La grand-mère

Also Known As:

La fille de l'Est (France) (working title)
You Are So Beautiful (USA) (literal English title)

Runtime:

France:97 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | Romanian

Color:

Color

Certification:

Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | France:U | Brazil:14 | South Korea:12

Filming Locations:

Bucharest Airport, Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont

Trivia:

Visa d'exploitation en France #111757.

Movie Connections:

Remade as You Are So Handsome (2009)

Soundtrack:

In my way

Entertaining French film about life, love and washing machines.

J'ai trouve cette film tres beau. A lovely little film that was very funny, if not a little disjointed. All the laughs seemed to occur in the first half of the program, with the sadness of the heroine overtaking the hilarity when the full realisation of her situation hits.

A French farm couple live a fairly spartan existence, with him tending the fields and her looking after the house and the cows. Unfortunately, the second-hand milking machine blows-up, electrocuting the farmer's wife. This is where the fun starts.

Unable to cope with household chores, our farmer resorts to a marriage agency and finds himself in Bucharest, interviewing prospective young women. Although short round and bald, all the girls are trained to tell him he is handsome. (Je vous trouve tres beau). He finds this bewildering. However, he chooses one young woman desperate enough to leave Rumania.

Hiding the fact that he has procured a woman from Eastern Europe, the couple return to France, where she puts the house in order. Even the dog becomes loving under her touch. However, the farmer, long dormant in the love department, appears to be resistant to her advances. Nevertheless, he does fall for her charms, realises she is desperately unhappy, and pretending that she has won a trifecta, generously (for the first time in his life?) gives her the money to return home and be secure.

This film is amusing and emotional. It reflects country living in France and the sad situation of people living in Eastern Europe, with humour and sensitivity. You will enjoy this film, as long as you don't love cats.