Une Belle Fille comme Moi
François Truffaut
Stanislas Prévine is a young sociologist. He has found the perfect subject for the research on his thesis on "female criminality": Camille Bliss, accused of murder. He frequently goes to the prison and records her life story on his tape recorder. A sad victim of social circumstances, she describes in minute detail her love affairs with the numerous men who passed through her life. Touched by this liberated, wilful woman, and convinced of her sincerity, Stanislas decides to try to prove her innocence...
With : Bernadette Lafont, André Dussollier, Guy Marchand, Claude Brasseur, Charles Denner, Philippe Léotard
Screenplay : François Truffaut, Jean-Loup Dabadie, d'après le roman "Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me" d'Henry Farell
Image : Pierre-William Glenn
Sound : René Levert
Music : Georges Delerue
Editing : Yann Dedet et Martine Barraqué
Screenplay : François Truffaut, Jean-Loup Dabadie, d'après le roman "Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me" d'Henry Farell
Image : Pierre-William Glenn
Sound : René Levert
Music : Georges Delerue
Editing : Yann Dedet et Martine Barraqué
Production : Les Films du Carrosse, Columbia S.A
Distribution: Columbia Films
Distribution: Columbia Films
Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me, a relatively unknown Truffaut film, is an adaptation of a crime novel, where his characters are both funny and touchingly vulgar. "In Anne and Muriel, I knew I was filming for the last time a woman climbing the stairs holding a candle, with lots of romantic music over it. I wanted to destroy all that romanticism so I concentrated on all the physical aspects: the illness, the fever, the vomiting, etc... I continued that destruction in Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me by making a mockery of romantic love, by affirming reality's brutality, and the struggle to survive. (...) Anne and Muriel was my first film without humor. This is my first really comic film." (F. Truffaut) Thirteen years after The Kids, Truffaut again worked with Bernadette Lafont and gave André Dussollier his first film role.