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Release Date:
1 June 2005 (UK) moreUser Comments:
Superficial, lackluster moreCast
(Credited cast)| Thierry Arbogast | ... | Himself | |
| Fanny Ardant | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Brigitte Bardot | ... | Herself | |
| Emmanuelle Béart | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Juliette Binoche | ... | Herself | |
| Jane Birkin | ... | Herself | |
| Catherine Breillat | ... | Herself | |
| Amira Casar | ... | Herself | |
| Laetitia Casta | ... | Herself | |
| Sylvie de Chirée | ... | Herself | |
| Catherine Deneuve | ... | Herself | |
| Lou Doillon | ... | Herself | |
| Françoise Dorléac | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Sara Forestier | ... | Herself | |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg | ... | Herself | |
| Jacques Hélleu | ... | Himself | |
| Isabelle Huppert | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Irène Jacob | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Kent Jones | ... | Himself | |
| Serge Kaganski | ... | Himself | |
| Nelly Kaprièlian | ... | Herself | |
| Anna Karina | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Pascale Lamche | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
| Sylvie Lancrenon | ... | Herself | |
| Jacques Le Glou | ... | Himself | |
| Noémie Lenoir | ... | Herself | |
| Aïssa Maïga | ... | Herself | |
| Sophie Marceau | ... | Herself | |
| Chiara Mastroianni | ... | Herself | |
| Jeanne Moreau | ... | Herself | |
| Anna Mouglalis | ... | Herself | |
| Audrey Tautou | ... | Herself | |
| Sidney Toledano | ... | Himself | |
| Gilles Weil | ... | Himself |
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Despite the SHAMELESS viral marketing here in IMDb I didn't find this documentary particularly interesting. The 'French Beauty' as a concept brings images of Bardot et al. to my mind, and France has had a long line of actresses who are easy on the eyes and some of them have even had the ability to act on the silver screen.
"French Beauty" aims to portray the beautiful French actresses yet it doesn't even mention Emmanuelle Seigner, Anouk Aimee, Julie Delpy, Virginie Ledoyen or the ageless Isabelle Adjani??? Only a few are actually interviewed but it is always interesting to see famous actors/actresses as themselves and whether they turn out to be anything you have come to expect from their performances in films. Tautou and Deneuve give some insightful comments into the subject at hand and the interviewees come up as genuine persons.
Fanny Ardant (for example) is in her fifties yet I thought she looked at most 30 and smashing when she appeared in Callas Forever. Unfortunately she's one of the many people NOT interviewed and she is featured extremely briefly.
What I really disliked in the documentary was how it pushed some no-name forgettable girl-woman in her early 20's as "the next beauty in French cinema." The docu makers really tried to sound authoritative when they declared that but it is a hollow and bogus statement. A sub-plot in this documentary follows a somewhat pouty self-indulgent girl who seeks her break in the movies. It doesn't come in the film and so far (August 2007) it hasn't come unless you count French B-movies as a break in the same league as all the other ladies featured in this doc. The whole segment, edited into short clips between all other beauties, made me actually think whether the whole documentary was made to just support her ailing career.