Tu vas rire, mais je te quitte (2005)
Directed by Philippe Harel

Film Synopsis

Elise Vérone is an actress in her early thirties who is willing to do almost anything to make herself rich and famous.  Unfortunately, her career so far has been something of a disaster, and she is still languishing in the D-list, unable to progress beyond tacky television commercials and even trashier sitcoms.  Realising that her love life is even less promising than her career, Elise dumps her boyfriend Olivier, but happiness still eludes her.  Thankfully, she has two good friends - Delphine and Lou - to help take her mind off her woes, but this is a pretty meagre substitute for what she really craves - a leading role in a primetime drama.

With her financial resources now stretched to breaking point, she hopes that her father Norbert will offer her a helping hand.  This is what she has in mind when she accepts a dinner engagement with him, but instead of a cash handout what she ends up with is another amorous distraction, in the form of a writer, Alain Varenne.  Alain makes a change from the kind of man Elise has had in the past - he is refined, cultured, a genuine artist.  But Elise soon realises he is not for her.  Bored with this relationship, she soon ends it and promptly succumbs to a philandering photographer named Arthur.  It seems that Elise's love life is going the same way as her career - a cycle of disappointments leading absolutely nowhere...