L’Étudiante (1988) - film review

During a skiing holiday, musician Ned meets Valentine, a young and very desirable intellectual.  In Paris, after another chance meeting, they are swept up in a whirlwind romance – which soon runs into problems when Ned’s ex-wife appears on the scene...

After their successful collaboration on La Boum (1980) and La Boum 2 (1982) debutante actress Sophie Marceau and director Claude Pinoteau conspired to serve up yet another dollop of low calorie entertainment for dewy eyed adolescents emerging from the minefield of puberty into the disaster zone known as adulthood.   Wetter than a monsoon-themed weekend in Brittany, L’Étudiante is about as lightweight as a film can be without being composed entirely of hydrogen molecules.  Some may be enthralled by its inoffensive yet nauseating brand of chick lit style romantic naivety; anyone with any sense and/or self-respect plus some fleeting knowledge of how things are in the real world should give it a very wide berth.

© James Travers 2007

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