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Les Infortunes de la beauté
1999 Comedy / Drama
Review
The inconsequential nature of this film and its wishy-washy plot makes it inordinately
difficult to take seriously, although it is oddly entertaining in places.
Some laughably pretentious dialogue and needlessly arty camera work undermine the film’s
better points, which include a number of genuinely funny comic situations. The film’s
star, the ever lovely Arielle Dombasle, is captivating, but, hampered by a lacklustre
script, she shines far less brightly than in the films of Eric Rohmer, to which this film
is, in some ways, a very pale approximation.
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Director:
John Lvoff
Starring: Arielle Dombasle, Maria de Medeiros, Thibault de Montalembert, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing Synopsis
Daphné is in love with Vincent but, despite her bountiful good looks, she isn’t
at all confident he will succumb to her powers of seduction. She devises a
scheme to ensure that Vincent will give up his Don Juan tendencies and devote himself
to her. With her friend, Céline, she wanders around Paris looking for young
women who are prepared to pose nude for an artist, and thereby trap Vincent into seeing
what Daphné has to offer.
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