A Good Marriage ( Le Beau mariage ) ( Comédies et proverbes: Le beau mariage )

A Good Marriage (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le Beau mariage
Alternate Title: Comédies et proverbes: Le beau mariage
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Ceasar Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1982 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Eric Rohmer

Written By:
Eric Rohmer

Actors:
Béatrice Romand ..... Sabine
Andre Dussollier ..... Edmond
Féodor Atkine ..... Simon
Arielle Dombasle ..... Clarisse
Huguette Faget ..... Maryse, Antique Dealer
Thamila Mezbah ..... Mother of Sabine
Sophie Renoir ..... Lise
Hervé Duhamel ..... Frédéric
Pascal Greggory ..... Nicolas
Virginie Thévenet ..... The Bride
Denise Bailly ..... Comtesse
Vincent Gauthier ..... Claude
Anne Mercier ..... La secrétaire
Catherine Rethi ..... Cliente
Patrick Lambert ..... Voyageur

Synopsis:

A GOOD MARRIAGE, the second of six films in director Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series, paints a cute but embarrassing portrait of Sabine (Beatrice Romand), a headstrong young woman longing for love, maturity, respect, commitment, and "the real thing." She packages up her woes, boldly walks out on her married lover, impulsively quits her job in an antique shop, and proudly announces that she has found the solution to all of her problems: She is getting married. This news comes as a big surprise to her older, happily married best friend Clarisse (Arielle Dambasle), who quickly recovers from her shock and warms to the task of finding a husband for Sabine. When Clarisse introduces Sabine to her painfully dull cousin, Edmond (Andre Dussollier), Sabine is easily convinced that he will fit the bill as her speedily chosen spouse, but Edmond is not as gullible as Sabine would care to think. Despite her aggressive pursuit of Edmond, he manages to slip out of her grasp, leaving her looking like a pouting adolescent--which she basically is. The strength of Rohmer's film resides in his delicate feel for the wonderfully loyal, understanding bond between Clarisse and Sabine and for the way that even Sabine's most ludicrous ideas are acknowledged and accepted by her friends and family. A GOOD MARRIAGE, which reads like a coming-of-age tale, fits perfectly with the thematically similar films in the series, all of which spotlight struggling, passionate characters like Sabine.

Le Beau Marriage, aka The Perfect Marriage, is the second of Eric Rohmer's "Comedies et Proverbes". Beatrice Romand (the adolescent star of Rohmer's Claire's Knee, now nicely grown up) impulsively decides that Andre Dussolier-whom she barely knows--would make an ideal husband. Now she must convince him that she'll make an ideal wife. Leaving her old boy friend in the dust, Romand launches her single-purposed pursuit of Dussolier. But because she's jumped in and started swimming without first checking the waters, our headstrong heroine is in for a major disappointment. Even after she's down, however, Romand refuses to be counted out.

Comedy drama. Tiring of having affairs with married men, a young woman decides to get married herself, setting her sights on an attractive but indifferent lawyer.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 04 April, 2009.

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