The read
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
81 audience votes
Key crew
- Claude GorettaDirector
- Claude GorettaWriter
- Pascal LainéScreenplay
- Pierre JansenOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Isabelle HuppertBeatrice 'Pomme'
- Yves BeneytonFrançois Béligné
- Florence GiorgettiMarylène
- Renate SchroeterMarianne
- Annemarie DüringerPomme’s mother
- Michel de RéPainter
- Monique ChaumetteMrs. Béligné
- Jean ObéMr. Béligné
- Christian BaltaussGérard
- Sabine AzémaCorinne
- Christian PeythieuFriend with the theory of boxes
- Heribert SasseStudent friend of François
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Themes
normandy, francesocial classbeauticianclassismmismatched relationship