Pretty Things

Pretty Things (Les jolies choses, 2001) is a French drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Gilles Paquet-Brenner — later known for Sarah's Key — tells the story of identical twins with nothing in common but their faces. Lucie is a model handed a coveted recording contract; the problem is she cannot sing. Marie can, but barely exists in her sister's shadow.

So Marie goes to Paris and takes Lucie's place. For a while the swap holds. Then real feelings, real jealousy, and real consequences begin pulling it apart. Marion Cotillard plays both twins, six years before La Vie en Rose made her an Oscar winner. The precision was already there. Stream Pretty Things online on iFILM.