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A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
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Wikipedia article
'A Gorgeous Girl Like Me' , also known as 'A Gorgeous Bird Like Me', is a 1972 French film directed by Franois Truffaut, starring Bernadette Lafont. It is based on Henry Farrell's 1967 novel of the same name.
Truffaut called it "a sarcastic comedy thriller."Tho audiences may be jaded, Truffaut will remain Truffaut
Mills, Bart. Chicago Tribune 6 Aug 1972: i13.
Plot
Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets Camille Bliss in prison to interview her. Camille is accused of having murdered her lover Arthur and her father. She tells Stanislas about her life and her love affairs.
Stanislas, much to the frustration of his secretary, who also has a crush on him, soon falls in love with Camille and works to find the evidence to prove her innocence. His secretary tries to convince the sociologist that Camille is a "manipulative slut" but he cannot be convinced. Through investigation, the sociologist and his secretary find a young boy, an amateur filmmaker, who has captured the evidence they need on film to secure Camille's release from prison.
Once free, Camille, who always has loved music and has seduced the cabaret singer Sam Golden earlier in the film, becomes a cause clbre and a singing star. Stanislas meets her after a performance, and she seduces him at her home; however, her husband (who is cuckolded many times during the film) discovers them and beats him up. Camille kills her husband and then plants the gun on her passed-out paramour.
When Stanislas is imprisoned for murder, Camille will do nothing to help the man who once freed her. As he cleans up the prison in the film's final segment, the camera pans to show Stanislas' secretary typing a manuscript on a nearby balcony, presumably the thesis that Stanislas began, but this time preparing one that will expose Camille as the manipulative seductress that Stanislas discovered her to truly be.
Cast
* Bernadette Lafont as Camille Bliss
* Andr Dussollier as Stanislas Prvine
* Claude Brasseur as Matre Murene
* Charles Denner as Arthur
* Guy Marchand as Roger aka Sam Golden
* Anne Kreis as Hlne
* Philippe Lotard as Clovis Bliss
* Gilberte Gniat as Isobel Bliss
* Michel Delahaye as Marchal
* Danile Girard as Florence Golden
* Martine Ferrire as prison secretary
* Jacob Weizbluth as Alphonse, the mute
* Jean-Franois Stvenin as the newspapers seller (uncredited)
* Franois Truffaut as a journalist (voice, uncredited)Allen, Don. 'Finally Truffaut'. New York: Beaufort Books. 1985. . . pp. 233.
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