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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5027035002064
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 205587
Theatrical Release Date: 1990-04
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
In the films of Bertrand Blier, love is a virus that sends its victims on a feverish fling of impulsive passion before leaving them abandoned and alone. The difference in Too Beautiful for You is an empathy and warmth rarely seen in Blier's often cynical work. Gérard Depardieu is the successful car dealer ambushed by Cupid when plain-looking secretary Josiane Balasko clumps into the office. It seems to defy all reason, how this frumpy, dumpy woman with eyes that caress lures Depardieu from elegant wife Carole Bouquet, a woman so poised and perfect she's more trophy than trophy wife, but love follows no reason. Neither does Blier's film, which dances through fantasies and flashbacks with the abandon of a daydream. It makes for a confusing story but a vivid experience, all passion and music and joy and pain: love, in all its obsessive, destructive ecstasy. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - pretentious nonsense
Depardieu plays a car salesman who falls in love with his ordinary-looking temporary secretary, despite being married to a gorgeous wife. The premise was promising but the result disappointing.
In general I'm a lover of French cinema but it does have a tendency to get preachy and pseudo-intellectual -- and that's what happens in this movie. We get lines of dialogue like this:
Mistress: I've vomited on your rug.
Wife: Take the rug. Leave my husband.
Sometimes the ... Read More
Rating:  - A film as surreal and complex as they come: Love and beauty never seemed more interesting than in Blier's mindwarper!
If you want to settle in for a light and entertaining breezy film about the complex intricasies of why and whom we love,then Bertrand Blier's TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR YOU is not your fare!!! Blier's mindblower is about as difficult and surreal a treatise on attractions and why they occur and with what pain they can cause as this reviewer has ever seen! You will be richly rewarded as Blier's trip into the serendipitous world of unexplained attractions is explored and actualized through a totally brilliant ... Read More
Rating:  - A Charming Little Film
This film is definately charming, and is different from most of the main sream films.
A man, who has a beautiful wife and children, falls in love with his frumpy-dressing average-looking secretary. He makes love to her, cheating on his wife.
His wife becomes aware of this, but instead of leaving him, she tries to be the woman of his dreams, but cannot suceed. He discovers that a woman with no imperfections is not desirable, there is nothing more to want from her.
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Rating: - A beutiful woman, sometimes doesn't allow to reach the bliss
Pascal wrote once: "The heart has its reasons that the reason unknows".
Only through the whole meaning of this deep thought you will be capable to understand why this apparently absurd and raising hair decision when you compare to Carole Bouquet one of the Goddess of the French Cinema and the humble secretary of this husband who would seem to find at last his authentic reason to live.
Perhaps Afrodite couldn't win the fight against the Mother Goddesss Earth: Gea. And ... Read More
Rating: - Not that good
I like Gerard Depardieu, but this movie was not good. It seemed almost unrealistic. Gerard is not convincing in this role. It was clear there was no chemistry between he and Josiane Balasko (his secretary). Just not believable. Sorry.
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