Employees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness.
Director:
Tonie Marshall
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Nathalie Baye | ... | Angèle Piana | |
| Bulle Ogier | ... | Madame Nadine, la patronne | |
| Samuel Le Bihan | ... | Antoine DuMont | |
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Jacques Bonnaffé | ... | Jacques |
| Mathilde Seigner | ... | Samantha | |
| Audrey Tautou | ... | Marie | |
| Robert Hossein | ... | L'aviateur | |
| Marie Rivière | ... | La cliente aux bottines fourées | |
| Edith Scob | ... | La cliente aux taches sur les mains | |
| Hélène Fillières | ... | La fiancée d'Antoine (as Hélène Filières) | |
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Brigitte Roüan | ... | Madame Marianne |
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Claire Nebout | ... | La cliente exhibitioniste |
| Micheline Presle | ... | Tante Maryse | |
| Emmanuelle Riva | ... | Tante Lyda | |
| Elli Medeiros | ... | Mlle Evelyne | |
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Madam Nadine manages with pride the "Vénus beauté" Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. The owner and her three beauticians: Samantha, Marianne and Angèle are pros. Contrary to her friend Marianne, who still dreams of the big day, Angèle no longer believes in love. Marie, the youngest of the three employees, discovers love in the hands of a sixty year-old former pilot, who risks everything... Written by L.H. Wong <lhw@sfs.org.sg>
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love | loneliness | new year's eve | christmas | alienated sexuality |Taglines:
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FrenchRelease Date:
3 February 1999 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Venus Beauty Institute See more »Filming Locations:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$32,150, 29 October 2000, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$416,464, 23 September 2001Company Credits
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Jacques: That's because you know my soul.
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Lyrics by Frank Gérald
Music by Jean Renard
Performed by Françoise Hardy (1963 BMG Vogue)
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Veteran French actress Micheline Presle, who cameos as a spinster aunt, is actually the mother of director Tonie Marshall. See more »Quotes
Angele: When you smile I find you handsome.Jacques: That's because you know my soul.
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Le premier bonheur du jourLyrics by Frank Gérald
Music by Jean Renard
Performed by Françoise Hardy (1963 BMG Vogue)
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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.