Too Beautiful for You
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| Film: | Too Beautiful for You: (Trop belle pour toi) |
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| Director: | Bertrand Blier |
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| Distributor: | MGM (Video & DVD) |
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Reviews
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In the films of Bertrand Blier, love is a virus that sends its victims on a feverish fling of impulsive passion before leaving them abandoned and alone. The difference in Too Beautiful for You is an empathy and warmth rarely seen in Blier’s often cynical work. Gérard Depardieu is the successful car dealer ambushed by Cupid when plain-looking secretary Josiane Balasko clumps into the office. It seems to defy all reason, how this frumpy, dumpy woman with eyes that caress lures Depardieu from elegant wife Carole Bouquet, a woman so poised and perfect she’s more trophy than trophy wife, but love follows no reason. Neither does Blier’s film, which dances through fantasies and flashbacks with the abandon of a daydream. It makes for a confusing story but a vivid experience, all passion and music and joy and pain: love, in all its obsessive, destructive ecstasy. —Sean Axmaker
