Young & Beautiful ( Jeune & jolie ) ( Young and Beautiful )

Young & Beautiful (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Jeune & jolie
Alternate Title: Young and Beautiful
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
François Ozon

Written By:
François Ozon

Actors:
Marine Vacth ..... Isabelle
Géraldine Pailhas ..... Sylvie
Frédéric Pierrot ..... Patrick
Fantin Ravat ..... Victor
Johan Leysen ..... Georges
Charlotte Rampling ..... Alice
Nathalie Richard ..... Véro
Djedje Apali ..... Peter
Lucas Prisor ..... Felix
Laurent Delbecque ..... Alex
Jeanne Ruff ..... Claire
Carole Franck ..... La policière
Olivier Desautel ..... Le policier
Serge Hefez ..... Le psychiatre
Akéla Sari ..... Mouna

Synopsis:

Written and Directed by François Ozon (Swimming Pool, In The House), Jeune & Jolie (or Young & Beautiful) is a unique look at adolescent development into maturity. Whilst on holiday with her family, seventeen year old Isabelle (Marine Vacth) experiences her first sexual relationship with an attractive young man named Felix (Lucas Prisor). A few days later, and for no apparent reason, Isabelle casts him aside and cuts off all contact with him, behaving as if their encounter never happened. When she returns home to Paris, Isabelle begins a dangerous new career; she sets up a profile on an escort website and lies about her age in order to make appointments with older, wealthy clients in chic, expensive hotel rooms. On the one hand she is a cool professional, catering to the sexual whims of the various men she encounters; on the other she is maintaining the illusion of being a regular school student for her parents and friends. Her double life spirals out of control, however, when the unthinkable happens with one of her regular clients and she is forced to deal with the consequences of what she has been doing.

Isabelle is on summer holidays with her family in the in the south of France. She decides to lose her virginity to a German boy called Felix, but the experience leaves her cold. By autumn she is exploring her sexuality further by working as a prostitute under the name Lea and meeting an older man called Georges, and various other clients. During one encounter with Georges he dies from a heart attack; Isabelle leaves the scene and quits prostitution. The police eventually track her down and reveal her secret life to her mother.

After losing her virginity, Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 29 April, 2014.

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