The Beautiful Person

2008

1h 35m

Drama

List

57%

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7 Reviews

58%

Audience Score

1,000+ Ratings

In the wake of her mother's tragic death, French teenager Junie (Léa Seydoux) transfers to a different high school. Though Junie lives mostly inside her own head, her beauty and stoicism win her the attention of the entire male student population. Junie begins dating the gentle Otto Cleves (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), but finds herself intensely drawn to her youthful Italian language teacher, Nemours (Louis Garrel). When Nemours begins to reciprocate, serious complications ensue.

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David Fear

Time Out

Rated: 3/5

Nov 17, 2011

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A.O. Scott

New York Times

The comic swerves and dramatic twists feel at once dutiful and arbitrary, and supposedly intense emotions are explored with the arch, weary detachment of a school assignment.

Rated: 2.5/5

Mar 6, 2009

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Dustin Chang

Floating World

Unlike the observation of a cafe owner, that teenage girls are as delicate as a glass. No matter what the circumstance, she is stronger than you and she can destroy you. Honoré too understands, about fleeting nature of love and its unfairness.

Apr 12, 2021

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Beverly Berning

culturevulture.net

Mr. Honor rejuvenates the age-old love triangle story on the surface, but underneath, it's still the same heavy-handed morality at play.

Sep 4, 2009

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Laura Clifford

Reeling Reviews

...reminiscent of Abdel Kechiche's "L'esquive" ("Games of Love and Chance"), yet while that film felt modern, urban and gritty, this one is more steeped in urban moodiness and doomed romance...

Rated: B

Jun 28, 2009

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Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

ginetai plano to plano olo kai pio kraygaleo oti o anthropos den kserei apo poy na paei kai pos na se parei mazi toy, gia na ftasete s' ena finale arhaioellinika tragiko kai sparaksikardio oste na soy meinei

Rated: 2/5

May 10, 2009

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Ren I

The movie was amazing. The plot is a little boring I still think the movie is good would recommend.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

11/16/23

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jaime h

A star is born! Lea is a revelation and has gone on to prove just as much.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

This movie has a lot of flares but no substance, it tries to give us different characters love stories without going in-depth into any story in particular. There is a shocking moment in the film, and the other characters take this just as a normal thing without giving an extra-second of attention.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Audience Member

Christophe Honoré is like a film student who doesn't have any idea of what he wants to say (that is, if he does have anything to say at all) and so creates an unfocused, pretentious narrative that has no sense of purpose and is full of poorly-developed characters and clichéd dialogue.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Audience Member

I highly disliked this movie. While it had some redeeming qualities, such as the cinematography and some nice spoken bits, it was overall very disappointing for me. The story arc was too slow, for one. None of the characters were particularly likeable in my opinion, either. Nemours was a creepy, perverted teacher who used women like tissues, and he decided his new 'love' was Junie. He pursues her and basically ruins her life in the process, instead of acting like the responsible elder he is. Some people may say that it was 'true, passionate love' calling, but I disagree. You don't love someone deeply from doing nothing but staring at them from afar. Basically, he liked a student's physicality and made her life suckish because of his desire. He reeked of male entitlement, and he irked me. Meanwhile, Junie was far from lovely too...leading Otto on, being as hypocritical as everybody else. All the characters irked me, and the story irked me. Not exciting, not intelligent. Sorry, but I really did not enjoy it.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Audience Member

Audacieuse interpretation de «La Princesse de Cleves». Je suis mordu des films de Christrophe Honore.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Léa Seydoux

Junie

Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet

Otto

Agathe Bonitzer

Marie

Simon Truxillo

Henri

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Synopsis

In the wake of her mother's tragic death, French teenager Junie (Léa Seydoux) transfers to a different high school. Though Junie lives mostly inside her own head, her beauty and stoicism win her the attention of the entire male student population. Junie begins dating the gentle Otto Cleves (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), but finds herself intensely drawn to her youthful Italian language teacher, Nemours (Louis Garrel). When Nemours begins to reciprocate, serious complications ensue.

Director: Christophe Honoré
Producer: Florence Dormoy, Joëy Faré
Screenwriter: Christophe Honoré, Gilles Taurand
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 28, 2020
Runtime: 1h 35m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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