Bertrand Blier's wry serio-comedy TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR YOU is a love triangle with some unexpected angles. Depardieu, a stolid bourgeois, has made a success of his life, with a thriving business, two bright children, and a surpassingly beautiful, upper-class wife (Bouquet). Into this life
comes a stout and no longer young secretary (Balasko) with whom he falls recklessly in love. Electrified with passion, he finds himself in a continual state of sexual excitement in which the woman who should be his wife is his mistress and vice versa. Starting from this topsy-turvy turn of events,
Blier (director of GOING PLACES; GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS; and the irresistibly wacky...
Released:
1989
Rated:
R
Length:
91 mins