Parfait amour! (1996)

A young teenage girl has stop individuality to unusual would reconsider the seen, and but a man tries to rape her mother's dead, or nothing but trusting sexual assault to rescue mission.

Director:

Catherine Breillat

Writer:

Catherine Breillat

Stars:

Isabelle Renauld, Francis Renaud, Laura Saglio

1 win.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Isabelle Renauld	...	Frédérique
Francis Renaud	...	Christophe
Laura Saglio	...	Emmanuelle
Alain Soral	...	Philippe
Michèle Rème	...	Christophe's mother
Alice Mitterrand	...	Wanda
Tom Rocheteau	...	Vincent
Delphine De Malherbe	...	Valérie De La Tournelle
Marie Lebée	...	Examining magistrate
Madeleine Top	...	Old lady with cat
Monique Denise	...	Groom's mother
Marc Verrin	...	Groom
Ingrid Martel	...	Bride
Serge Toubiana	...	Louis
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Coralie	...	Bénédicte (as Coralie Gengenbach)

Storyline

Anatomy of a murder. Christophe has murdered Frédérique, his lover. He's in his 20s, an entrepreneur who likes to pick up chicks with his misogynist friend Philippe; she's in her 30s, a doctor twice divorced with two children. After a police reenactment of the crime and an interview with her teen daughter, we go back to the start of their affair and follow it to its conclusion. Frédérique is attracted to Christophe's sweet side; she's emotional about her past and ambivalent about her sexuality. His sexuality later becomes an issue, as does his relationship with Philippe. Are the lovers drowning each other in attraction, expectation, and revulsion? Why does Christophe kill?

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Plot Keywords:

male full frontal nudity | male pubic hair | pubic hair | fellatio | rape | 

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

23 October 1996 (France)

Also Known As:

Perfect Love

Filming Locations:

Dunkerque, Nord, France

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dacia Films,CB Films,La Sept Cinéma

Technical Specs

Runtime:

110 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Frédérique: I like sex, but I hate myself.

User Reviews

Very intellectual... and a lotta sex too..

This is the kind of French movie which makes most of the viewers take to their heels.A bizarre cross between nouvelle vague stuff ("les amants" ,Louis Malle,1958) and post nouvelle vague stuff for diehard highbrows ("la maman et la putain",Jean Eustache,1973) ,this movie has got endless dialogues,mostly in bed where the hero ,a heavy smoker,drinks a lotta coca-cola .Roughly,the first part is the happy phase of the affair with erotism and nudity galore ;then comes the second part,in which the heroine looks like an Edward Albee's character (Martha in " Virginia Woolf") and her lover reveals he does not like sex at all,which is hard to swallow,after all we've seen.

The movie is a long flashback ,which tries to dissect a murder.Acting is pretty good,particularly the male lead ,that's the main interest of a sometimes boring story.