Beautiful Lies

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France

2010

105 Min

Color

1.85:1

French, Mandarin

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Benoît Graffin, Pierre Salvadori

CAST Audrey Tautou, Nathalie Baye, Sami Bouajila, Stephanie Lagarde, Judith Chemla, Cécile Boland, Didier Brice, Daniel Duval, Yilin Yang, Lan Qui, Paul Morgan, Santiago Reyes

SOUND Michel Casang, Josefina Rodríguez, Christophe Winding

Synopsis

Beautiful Lies stars two of France’s most beloved actresses, Nathalie Baye and Audrey Tautou. A young woman who runs a hairdressing salon, Emilie (Tautou) desperately wants to help her mother Maddy (Baye), who has been dwelling in depression since her husband left. When Emilie receives a beautifully written anonymous love letter, she sees an opportunity to make her mother smile again. Too self-absorbed to see that the secret admirer is her shy handyman Jean, played by Sami Bouajila, Emilie copies the letter and sends it to her mother. Overjoyed, Maddy is determined to find the author of the letter… Complications ensue and Emilie quickly loses control of the web she has weaved. –COL•COA

Director

Pierre Salvadori

Pierre Salvadori (born 8 November 1964, Tunisia) is a French Corsican film director from Santo-Pietro-di-Venaco known for works on romantic comedies such as Hors de prix (2006).

In 1989 he wrote his first screenplay, which would then become the hit film Cible émouvante (Wild Target), which he directed in 1993. The film garnered the young director a César nomination for Best First Work, though he had already tested his directorial capabilities the year before with the short film Ménage.

Cible émouvante was remade in London by Jonathan Lynn as Wild Target (2009)

In 1995, Salvadori began working with Marie Trinignant and Guillaume Depardieu, who he cast in the highly successful films The Apprentices and Comme elle respire. And in 2000, Salvadori switched gears from comedy to the dark thriller The Sandmen. —Wikipedia