Synopsis
Too Beautiful for You (Trop belle pour toi, 1989) is Bertrand Blier's French romance, ready to watch online on iFILM. The premise sounds absurd: a successful man with a gorgeous wife falls helplessly for his plain new secretary, and he can't explain it to himself any more than to anyone else.
Bernard (Gérard Depardieu) runs a car dealership, drives the best models on his lot and is married to Florence, a flawless beauty played by Carole Bouquet. He has everything a man is supposed to envy. Yet he's pulled toward Colette (Josiane Balasko), his dowdy, slightly heavy temp secretary. The affair ignites fast; what burns slower is the wife, who takes this particular betrayal far harder than expected. Blier scrambles the timeline, folds Bernard's fantasies into the action and lays Schubert under the whole thing.
The film took the Grand Prix at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and still ranks among the sharpest comedies about how attraction obeys neither logic nor looks. Wry, melancholy filmmaking for anyone who loves French cinema and uneasy questions about desire. Stream Too Beautiful for You (1989) online on iFILM.
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