You Are So Beautiful

2005
6.7| 1h37m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 07 November 2005 Released
Producted By: Gaumont
Country: France
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Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new wife. There he meets Elena.

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Drama, Comedy

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Director

Isabelle Mergault

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Gaumont

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Lawbolisted Powerful
RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
ElMaruecan82 "Forget you don't stand a chance, and just go for it! Who knows, it might work out of a misunderstanding!"This is Jean-Claude Dusse's seduction advice from French comedy classic "Les Bronzés Font du Ski" and it sounds like the kind of quotes Woody Allen would have delivered in one of his early zany comedies. And ever since his film debut with the 'Splendid' Troop, Michel Blanc has always been a sort of Woody Allen's counterpart, never quite lucky with women, even managing to get bullied and towered by Gérard Jugnot. So he kind of makes a point with this cynical yet well-exposed tactic. Michel Blanc, like Woody Allen, was never cut for the leading man roles: bald, at 5'5 and with rather average looks, but he had a prolific career nonetheless and great films in and behind the screen. Still, he wasn't really love-story material.But his self-derision made him lovable with this self-consciousness that inhabit losers and make them such appealing characters and Blanc such an endearing actor, and the merit of "Je Vous Trouve Très Beau" is to have exploited the best facet of the actor, from the chuckle inducing title. It means, literally, "I find you very attractive", which is one of the French sentences Romanian girls learn in order to compliment their French soon-to-be husbands, but when you have a bitter and grouchy farmer looking like Ayme in front of you, it's hard not to make this sound awkward. Even Aymé is tired of hearing women telling him that he's good looking, and when one of them, named Elena (Medea Marinescu) says that he's not that handsome, well, he's vexed but at least, she seems sincere. The film was made at a time where Romania wasn't in the European Union so I might understand why they were eager to flee to the country of "Tour Eiffel", "Moulin Rouge"… although with Ayme, they were candidate for disappointments at first sight.But Ayme doesn't make himself more likable or sexy, he's rather straightforward about his expectations, he doesn't need a wife but a help, not a body or a heart but hands, and from the way he's seen interacting with his wife, shortly before her death, it's obvious that Ayme never had anything worth someone's love, not the looks, not even the time. But it doesn't matter, Elena doesn't want the fairy tale, she needs money to open a dance school for her little girl. As a matter of fact, she's the closest to a dishonest character, but I wouldn't call her that, because she seems genuinely interested in making Ayme's life better and it's painful to see her attempts and the cute way she brings him food at midday being welcomed with anger. Of course, we know it's a matter of time before Ayme's heart is defrosted, but the situations are so touching and humanly pleasing that the film is better to be enjoyed without really caring for the plot. Indeed, it's only when the story must move forward a little that it gets predictable or needlessly contrived. The film is the directorial debut of French comedienne Isabelle Mergault who was mostly known for being a guest in a TV show, and this is a role no one saw her coming and yet she made one of the most successful films of the year. I'm not surprised because as she said, she was so scared she prepared everything, she had her story set and when she came at the field, everything turned well. I wish she would have trusted her story enough to enrich it with a few subplots. For instance, Ayme never says Elena is his wife, and there's a blooming romance between her and a young farmer that could have lead somewhere. This is a film that is so confident in its simplicity that it almost affords to be surprisingly good at some parts; so good you wish it had tried a little more at others. Also, I felt like some pivotal moments were missing and compensated by needlessly overwritten scenes.There's a moment where Elena puts on a sexy nightgown and waits for Ayme in the bed, but when he comes, he yells at her and calls her a whore, she slaps him and leaves the house. When he comes to her, he apologizes, but then goes to a long speech detailing how he's not angry with Elena but himself. Here I thought the film could have done without it, because the characters are well-written enough so we know the anger isn't directed to Elena, so this part said a lot about the directors' lack of confidence in her material. The irony is that some parts are underwritten, besides the courting young farmer, how about Ayme's friend? When he discovers the truth, I don't see why he doesn't confront Ayme in a straightforward way instead of playing riddles with him. It didn't seem consistent with the niceness of this character.The film isn't very ambitious except in telling a good love story and it does, thanks to the actors' performances, it doesn't take many risks but at least, we feel satisfied at the end, and it is so touching it inspired one of the most enduring reality shows about farmers looking for the great love. One might think that this film has hit a sensitive chord, if it had influenced a reality program that made couples possible and families. Not bad for a directorial debut.
Hari Nam This is a charming story of unlikely companions cast together by circumstance and hard choices. It is interesting to see how the protagonists use their situation, once they have committed initially to their self interests, to pay each other back, and with love and compassion eventually find what they do not expect. Each phase of this progression is clearly imprinted in the viewer's experience from both points of view in a very patient, but not slow, immersion into the characters' hearts and psyches. The effect of this is to erase the viewer's point of view and leave the audience with a memorable impression of the whole, which is beautiful to behold.
bryanlord I can't rate this film because I saw only about the first half of it on a flight back from Paris. What I saw I loved.Comedy doesn't travel well. I'm an American, dyed in the wool, and I normally find French comedy annoying--self-conscious and stilted. This movie, however, is funny, and I give most of the credit to Michel Blanc. He is subtly hilarious as the single-minded rube trying to replace his dead wife-cum-farmhand-cum-cook-cum-housekeeper the way you or I might try to replace a pair of comfortable old shoes with new ones. He just can't make the clerk understand.I like hard comedy--vicious satire, outrageous parody, clever wordplay--and this movie is none of those. It could hardly be more conventional. The plot is that of a TV sitcom episode, and the script is studied and tame. Still, I laughed out loud every few minutes, and taking into account jet lag and nicotine deprivation, that's saying something.
tlespagnol This film will probably not be remembered in 10 years but it does not matter as it's not meant to be a 7th art masterpiece. The plot is simple but interesting, based on two facts: - the difficulty for French farmers to find spouses willing to settle in a farm; - the difficulty for young Romanians to get a decent job in their own country;A market-oriented solution would be to bring together the offer and the demand. And it's exactly what the dating company is doing. The problem is that human beings, unlike goods, have feelings: - it's hard for a French farmer to understand a girl from Romania; - it's hard for a Romanian girl to leave her country and her past behind.It's a nice reminder to those criticizing immigrants that it's always a last-resort and heart-breaking solution to move away from home in search for better conditions.Two great actors: Michel Blanc and Medeea Constantinescu.Last but not least, life in Romania is far from being as dull as the film pretends.