Une belle fille comme moi (1972)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

François Truffaut

Writers:

Henry Farrell (novel)
Jean-Loup Dabadie (adaptation)
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Release Date:

13 September 1972 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Drama

Plot:

Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets in prison Camille Bliss to interview her...

Plot Keywords:

Interview | Sociologist | Femme Fatale | Bookstore | Suicide

Cast

Bernadette Lafont	...	Camille Bliss
Claude Brasseur	...	Maître Murene
Charles Denner	...	Arthur
Guy Marchand	...	Roger, aka Sam Golden
André Dussollier	...	Stanislas Prévine
Anne Kreis	...	Hélène
Philippe Léotard	...	Clovis Bliss
Gilberte Géniat	...	Isobel Bliss
Michel Delahaye	...	Marchal
Danièle Girard	...	Florence Golden
Jérôme Zucca	...	L'enfant cinéaste amateur
Gaston Ouvrard	...	Le vieux gardien de prison / Old prison warder
Martine Ferrière	...	La secrétaire de la prison / Prison Secretary
Jacob Weizbluth	...	Alphonse, le muet / Alphonse, the mute
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marcel Berbert	...	Le libraire (uncredited)
Jean-Loup Dabadie	...	Un photographe (uncredited)
Annick Fougery	...	Teacher (uncredited)
Jean-François Stévenin	...	Le vendeur de journaux (uncredited)
François Truffaut	...	Un journaliste (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
François Truffaut

Writing credits
Henry Farrell		(novel "Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me")
Jean-Loup Dabadie		(adaptation and dialogue) &
François Truffaut		(adaptation and dialogue)

Original Music by
Georges Delerue

Cinematography by
Pierre-William Glenn

Film Editing by
Martine Barraqué
Yann Dedet

Production Design by
Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko		(as Jean-Pierre Kohut)

Costume Design by
Monique Dury

Makeup Department
Thi-Loan Nguyen	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Marcel Berbert	....	production manager
Claude Ganz	....	production manager
Claude Miller	....	unit production manager
Roland Thénot	....	production leader

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Suzanne Schiffman	....	assistant director

Art Department
Jean-François Stévenin	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
René Levert	....	sound

Special Effects by
Jean-Claude Dolbert	....	special effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Walter Bal	....	camera operator
Anne Khripounoff	....	assistant camera

Other crew
Christian Lentretien	....	production administrator
Christine Pellé	....	script girl

Production Companies

• Les Films du Carrosse (co-production)
• Columbia Films (co-production)

Distributors

• Columbia Films (1972) (France) (theatrical)
• Gala Film Distributors (1973) (UK) (theatrical)
• MK2 Diffusion (2000) (France) (theatrical) (revival)
• Columbia Pictures (1973) (USA) (subtitled)
• Concorde Home Entertainment (2007) (Germany) (DVD)
• Umbrella Entertainment (2007) (Australia) (DVD)

Also Known As:

A Gorgeous Bird Like Me
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (Australia) (DVD box title)
Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Béziers, Hérault, France

Company:

Les Films du Carrosse

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Soundtrack:

Une belle fille comme moi

Released the same year his ex-friend was making 'Tout Va Bien'...

Like Michael Winner, Truffaut thinks a feminist movie would be about a sexually promiscuous woman who turns the tables on a serious of idiotic men who are so caricatured that they bear little relation to the real oppressors facing women at this time, especially in institutionally misogynistic France.

I should really like this film, it has everything I wanted - directed by the maker of my three desert-island films; magic realism; a Chinese-whispers narrative structure; bawdy comedy; grotesques; superb performances. Bernadette Lafont is sprightly in the lead role, escaping all the traps men lay for her (including her director). Andre Dussolier is sensational is his first role as the intellectual, spectacles-wearing professor who can't see beyond his own nose, and Guy Marchand is hilarious as a spectacularly vain rock star.

All these things are good. The film isn't. Go figure.