Carole Bouquet (who, for example Deneuve, promotes large-classification makeup) is the image of huge-bourgeois beauty, if you are Josiane Balasko (a comic celebrity and filmmaker regarding the cafe-theatre tradition) means proletarian-ness
ravishingly stunning Florence (Carole Bouquet), whom drops crazy about his ‘homely’ assistant Colette (Josiane Balasko — ‘homely’ is when the brand new subtitles coyly change the fresh funnier however, much more cruel French slang expressions designating allegedly unappealing women, like tarte [lit: tart as with pastry] and boudin [lit: black colored dessert, otherwise turd]). Although the motion picture is actually comedy, it’s supposed to be knew since the a critical report to your men distress, underlined by using Schubert to your sound recording. Depardieu, really fulfils their be the macho stud (‘I never have already been very well fucked’, says Colette) which will be the new locus out of distress, when he was in the long run quit from the both people. New discourse regarding men fragility conveniently erases regarding sex and you may group energy. From the variety of performers, charm and attractiveness are offered as the classbound. But if Colette is actually proven to be attractive to Depardieu since the away from this lady proletarian-ness, the film meanwhile (as an instance, from the code accustomed describe the lady) sets her down if you are so. Depardieu, in addition, through their built-up picture throughout the early in the day, can also be involve proletarian-ness and you may transcend it, as a consequence of their heartbreaking distress.
