The read
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 91% of the 1,486 1990s comedy movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 22m.
Synopsis
Antoine has always been fascinated by a hairdresser's delicate touch, the beguiling perfume, and the enticing figure of a woman with an opulent bosom. After all, he had always known he would marry one, completing his idealized love fantasy.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes92%
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do.
232 audience votes
Key crew
- Patrice LeconteDirector
- Claude KlotzScreenplay
- Michael NymanOriginal Music Composer
- Patrice LeconteScreenplay
Cast
- Jean RochefortAntoine
- Anna GalienaMathilde
- Roland BertinAntoine's Father
- Maurice ChevitAmbroise Dupré dit Isidore Agopian
- Philippe ClévenotMorvoisieux
- Jacques MathouJulien Gora
- Claude AufaureGay Costomer
- Albert DelpyDonecker
- Henry HockingAntoine - Age 12
- Ticky HolgadoMorvoisieux Son-in-Law
- Michèle LaroqueAdopted Child's Mother
- Anne-Marie PisaniMadame A. Sheaffer
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Themes
suicidehairdresserman woman relationshiplittle boyfalling in lovetold in flashbackromantictragic
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