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A Good Marriage

Original title: Le beau mariage
  • 19821982
  • PGPG
  • 1h 33m
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7.0/10
3.6K
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A Good Marriage (1982)
ComedyDramaRomance
Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond... Read allSabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.
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    • Éric Rohmer
    • Éric Rohmer
  • Stars
    • Béatrice Romand
    • André Dussollier
    • Féodor Atkine
    • Éric Rohmer
    • Éric Rohmer
  • Stars
    • Béatrice Romand
    • André Dussollier
    • Féodor Atkine
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    André Dussollier and Béatrice Romand in A Good Marriage (1982)

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    Béatrice Romand
    Béatrice Romand
    • Sabine
    André Dussollier
    André Dussollier
    • Edmond
    Féodor Atkine
    Féodor Atkine
    • Simon
    Arielle Dombasle
    Arielle Dombasle
    • Clarisse
    Huguette Faget
    Huguette Faget
    • Maryse, Antique Dealer
    Thamila Mezbah
    • Mother of Sabine
    Sophie Renoir
    Sophie Renoir
    • Lise
    Hervé Duhamel
    • Frédéric
    Pascal Greggory
    Pascal Greggory
    • Nicolas
    Virginie Thévenet
    • The Bride
    Denise Bailly
    • Comtesse
    Vincent Gauthier
    Vincent Gauthier
    • Claude
    Anne Mercier
    • La secrétaire
    Catherine Rethi
    • Cliente
    Patrick Lambert
    • Voyageur
      • Éric Rohmer
      • Éric Rohmer
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    • Trivia
      The second of director Éric Rohmer's six "Comedies et Proverbes" series of movies of the 1980s. The other five, in chronological order, are The Aviator's Wife (1981), Pauline at the Beach (1983), Full Moon in Paris (1984), Le rayon vert (1986) and Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987).
    • Connections
      Featured in Visions: Cinema, Cinemas/Q & A with Paul Schrader/A Film Comment by Angela Carter (1982)
    • Soundtracks
      Le beau mariage (danse)
      Written by Ronan Girre

      Performed by Ronan Girre

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    7/10
    "Hypocrite"
    A young ambitious student wishes to succeed and to make a beautiful marriage... The protagonist knows well that it will be hard but has the reasons for: on the other hand she is smart enough to know that the social background matters a lot - as she said to her friend Clarisse, we cannot have a free mind and a free body everywhere, it is especially the money who allows us to sugar the pill! And there is that she suddenly chooses a poor guy who is a lawyer in real life, somebody who's not a "pitiful" according to herself.

    The number one's principle of the movie being to demonstrate it then regrettably, its opposite. Because Sabine also makes a mistake, but I would not tell you why or what in order to not spoil nothing of this work, which's absolutely one of more successful of Rohmer, this cult director being capable of the worst like the very best as for some of his movies. On the other hand know firstly that rohmerians often denigrates " the beautiful marriage " and it's natural because this full-length film scratches in the place where you must not. Anti- bourgeois, anti-hipster, this movie is to be seen and mainly for its brunette bold heroine not so pointless who also proves to ourselves that being a provincial or living in a big town; it's anyway the same thing for many of us.

    The B.O. says moreover dice the beginning by this fast and wriggling electronic track, been born before this illusion of marketing what we name today "french-touch". And if it begins with a light comedy it is to press better on the ridiculous, disgusted of these predicted preset things that we would prefer all to avoid before any of this... especially glaucous physical appearance which seems to be obliged in the love scenes and that this young father with theses swines kids (who phones every time at every hour of day. And every hour of the night too) personalizes it par excellence (as we say in french).

    So, the whole is almost a masterpiece, in spite of its so long typical conversations of the author. And I know well what I'm talking about - comme on dit en France.
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    • At the 50th minute, when Sabine kisses LIse at the kitchen table, we see a drawing hung on the wall, at the back. Do you know what it is?

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    • Release date
      • August 27, 1982 (United States)
      • France
      • French
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      • Ballon, Sarthe, France
    • Production companies
      • Les Films du Losange
      • Les Films du Carrosse
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    • 1 hour 33 minutes
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