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L'Effrontée

  • Director: Claude Miller
  • AMG Rating: starstarstarstar
  • Genre: Comedy Drama
  • Movie Type: Coming-of-Age, Teen Movie
  • Themes: Unlikely Friendships, Small-Town Life, Fathers and Daughters
  • Main Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Claude Brialy, Clothilde Baudon, Raoul Billerey
  • Release Year: 1985
  • Country: FR
  • Run Time: 96 minutes

Plot

The dreams and naivete of Charlotte, a young, working-class girl (Charlotte Gainsbourg in an award-winning performance) clash with reality as she meets the young pianist she admires (Clothilde Baudon), and a younger pest she would like to shed (Julie Glenn). Charlotte is surrounded by a drab life in her rundown neighborhood and is saddled with a crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Life picks up a little color when a new friend comes into the picture, a pianist from the other side of the tracks who is going to give a recital in town. The more sophisticated pianist jokes that maybe Charlotte should be her manager, and that sets off a series of misunderstandings that lead to some pretty wild moments. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Cast

Jean-Philippe Ecoffey - Jean; Julie Glenn - Lulu

Credit

Claude Miller - Director, Albert Jurgenson - Editor, Alain Jomy - Composer (Music Score), D. Farina - Songwriter, E. Ghinazzi - Songwriter, Daniele Pace - Songwriter, Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko - Production Designer, Dominique Chapuis - Cinematographer, Marie-Laure Reyre - Producer, Gerard Lamps - Sound/Sound Designer, Paul Lainé - Sound/Sound Designer, Annie Miller - Screenwriter, Claude Miller - Screenwriter, Luc Beraud - Screenwriter, Bernard Stora - Screenwriter

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L'Effrontée
Directed by Claude Miller
Produced by Marie-Laure Reyre
Written by Claude Miller
Luc Béraud
Bernard Stora
Annie Miller
Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg
Music by Alain Jomy
Cinematography Dominique Chapuis
Editing by Albert Jurgenson
Distributed by Cinema National de la Cinématographie/Films Antenne 2/Monthyon Films/Oliane Productions/Telema Productions
Release date(s) December 11, 1985
Running time 96 minutes
Country France
Language French

L'Effrontée is a 1985 French film directed by Claude Miller. It stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, who won the César Award for Most Promising Actress, and Bernadette Lafont, who won the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

The film won the Louis Delluc Prize, and received César nominations for Best Film, Best Director, Most Promising Actor, Best Writing, Best Costume Design and Best Sound.

Plot

Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. She has been raised without a mother, and lives with her crass brother and her father, whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old pest she would like to be rid of. Charlotte is bored and dreams of a better life, and her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist from the other side of the tracks, who she really admires. Charlotte wants to be friends with Clara, who she sees as her ticket out of the area, while the sophisticated Clara jokingly suggests that Charlotte should become her manager.

Cast

  • Charlotte Gainsbourg - Charlotte Castang
  • Clothilde Baudon - Clara Bauman
  • Julie Glenn - Lulu
  • Bernadette Lafont - Léone
  • Jean-Claude Brialy - Sam
  • Jean-Philippe Écoffey - Jean
  • Raoul Billerey - Antoine Castang
  • Richard Guerry - Regard sombre

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Charlotte Gainsbourg (Actor, Writer, Director, Drama/Comedy Drama)
Bernadette Lafont
César Awards 1986

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