Sunday, February 14, 2010

La belle personne

I watched the French movie "La belle personne" last night on YouTube. It's a good movie but the story is tragic. I like the songs featured in the movie, especially the song "Comme La Pluie" which was sung by Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, one of the actors in the movie.



Here's the synopsis from IMDB:

Sixteen-year old Junie changes high school mid-year, following the death of her mother. She finds herself in the same class as her cousin Mathias, who introduces her to his friends. All the boys want to date Junie, and she chooses the quietest among them, Otto Cleves. But soon after, she encounters the great love of her life, Nemours, her Italian teacher. The passion that burns between them is, however, doomed. Junie refuses to give in to her feelings and persists in denying herself happiness, which in her eyes is merely illusory.

"La belle personne" is actually a modern adaptation of the classic French novel "La Princesse de Cleves". I want to read the novel but of course I can't read it now since I'm busy with our thesis.

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