Beau-père
Bertrand Blier
Rémi, is a young musician who plays out his spleen on the keys of a bar-room piano. Following the death of his girlfriend in an accident, he meets Marion, her daughter, who was born of a previous relationship. However, Marion's motivations for staying with her step father rather than her real father stem from sexual attraction. Her physical desire soon develops very rapidly, and he tries his best to resist...
With : Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse, Maurice Ronet, Maurice Risch, Nathalie Baye, Nicole Garcia, Macha Méril
Screenplay : Bertrand Blier
Image : Sacha Vierny
Editing : Claudine Merlin
Music : Philippe Sarde
Screenplay : Bertrand Blier
Image : Sacha Vierny
Editing : Claudine Merlin
Music : Philippe Sarde
Production : Alain Sarde
Distribution: Tamasa
Distribution: Tamasa
After a foray into the absurd and the surrealist (Buffet froid), Bertrand Blier returned with new variations on love. He said that he had only filmed "cretins and cowards", and this time created the flip side of Préparez vos mouchoirs (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs) in what could be seen as a diptych: a story of physical love consummated between a disenchanted minor and her step father, "a feckless loser" (B. Blier). This subversively-themed melodrama is actually treated with a great deal of simplicity and care, while avoiding all the pitfalls of voyeurism. A new direction in Blier's career.