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6.3/10
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Employees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness.Employees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness.Employees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
4.3K
YOUR RATING
- Tonie Marshall(screenplay)
- Jacques Audiard
- Marion Vernoux
- Stars
Hélène Fillières
- La fiancée d'Antoine
- (as Hélène Filières)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaVeteran French actress Micheline Presle, who cameos as a spinster aunt, is actually the mother of director Tonie Marshall.
- GoofsHélène Fillières is correctly credited in the opening titles but mistakenly listed in the end credits as "Hélène Filières"
- Crazy creditsHélène Fillières is correctly credited in the opening titles but mistakenly listed in the end credits as "Hélène Filières"
- ConnectionsFollowed by Venus and Apollo (2005)
- SoundtracksNuit de Noël
Written by l'abbé Zurfluh
Performed by Camille Maurane (baritone), Marie-Claire Alain (organ) with Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint Laurent
(Edition Erato Disques S.A.)
Review
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Good Bittersweet Movie
This movie has some fine acting. It is driven by character rather than plot. Nathalie Baye, as Angèle, plays a 40ish beautician in Paris. She has had a traumatic childhood and has been burned in love so she limits herself to one-night stands where she is in the driver's seat. Then a man obsessively falls for her and she has to decide whether to open up to love, or at least the possibility of it. This does not play out quite the way it would if this were a Hollywood high concept movie.
There are many minor characters, affectionately drawn. Some pieces of Angèle's past never quite get explained or resolved, which some people might complain about, but, hey, life is a lot like that.
This film is set in Paris, right before and right after Christmas. (I also saw "La Buche" at the same theater, also set in Paris at Christmas, also very good)
The jazzy score is particularly nice.
This is not exactly an upbeat Christmas movie, but it's well worth seeing.
There are many minor characters, affectionately drawn. Some pieces of Angèle's past never quite get explained or resolved, which some people might complain about, but, hey, life is a lot like that.
This film is set in Paris, right before and right after Christmas. (I also saw "La Buche" at the same theater, also set in Paris at Christmas, also very good)
The jazzy score is particularly nice.
This is not exactly an upbeat Christmas movie, but it's well worth seeing.
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- sharkfinsoup
- Dec 4, 2000
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- 1 hour 45 minutes
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