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Mademoiselle is a 2001 French comedy film directed by Philippe Lioret starring Sandrine Bonnaire and Jacques Gamblin. It was entered into the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.

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Mademoiselle Synopsis

Two people with little in common enter into a brief, impulsive love affair in this comedy-drama. Pierre (Jacques Gamblin) is the leader of an improvisational comedy team known as The Unpredictables, who specialize in blending unnoticed into social functions and large gatherings, then making comic mayhem out of their surroundings. Pierre and his partners Karim (Zinedine Soualem) and Alice (Isabelle Candelier) have been hired to provide entertainment at a conference for employees of a large pharmaceutical firm, where they'll pose as waiters and create humor out of improbable dining suggestions. One guest who is quite taken with their performance is Claire (Sandrine Bonnaire), who finds herself attracted to Pierre, even though she's been happily married for eight years and has two children at home. The morning after the conference, Claire discovers she's missed her train, and bumps into The Unpredictables; Pierre helpfully offers her a ride in their van, and Claire accepts. On a whim, Claire tags along for the troupe's next gig, a performance at a wedding reception, and the more time she spends with Pierre, the more she finds herself thinking about leaving her old life behind, if only for a while.



Cast

Sandrine Bonnaire as Claire Canselier

Jacques Gamblin as Pierre Cassini

Isabelle Candelier as Alice Cohen

Zinedine Soualem as Karim Coutard

Jacques Boudet as Gilbert Frémont

Patrick Mercado as Nounours

Philippe Beglia as Philippe Carioux

Maryvonne Schiltz as Elisabeth Carioux

Gérard Lartigau as Henri Blasco

Blandine Pélissier (credited as Blandine Pelissier) as the pharmacist

Olivier Cruveiller as Villeval

Alain Cauchi as Granier



Review: ‘Mademoiselle’

Lisa Nesselson

May 7, 2001

A beautifully made dramedy about a one-night stand, “Mademoiselle” is probably very close to how David Lean would have approached “Brief Encounter” if he set out to make it today. In his third delightful feature, soundman-turned-scripter/director Philippe Lioret proves he is the very thing industry pundits claim they’re in search of but overlook when he’s right under their noses: a talented filmmaker with a light yet meaningful touch who knows how to tell a story, show actors at their best and make audiences chuckle.



Lioret’s “Lost in Transit” (1993) and “Proper Attire Required” (1996) were sweetly comical ensemblers. This third outing — basically a two-hander, with excellent supporting perfs — is far more mature yet never stodgy. The cast positively glows even though there’s an undercurrent of aching melancholy to their actions; and the perfectly dosed script, beautifully served by thesps, elevates a banal encounter into an attenuated jolt with pleasant aftershocks.



Pierre (Jacques Gamblin), Alice (Isabelle Candelier) and Karim (Zinedine Soualem) are a traveling improv troupe called the Unpredictables. They excel at blending into functions such as conventions and weddings, where, in the guise of waiters, they wreak havoc by saying and doing inappropriate things (e.g. “I wouldn’t eat the salmon — it’s been genetically modified”). Their antics are applauded when they reveal the extent of their pranks hours later. Fooled while attending a conference, pharmaceutical exec Claire (Sandrine Bonnaire) admires the troupe’s freewheeling audacity as they perform witty closing night improvs based on audience suggestions. When she misses her train the next morning, Claire accepts a lift from the trio, who are on their way to perform at a wedding. She ends up staying for the wedding and more or less is willingly stranded for the night.



Married for eight years and with two children, Claire is fairly conventional; yet it is she who encourages tentative affection from bachelor Pierre. “You have my word as a mime,” is the sort of thing Pierre says, but there’s something serious at work beneath his carefree performing demeanor.



The whole movie, told in flashback from Claire’s p.o.v., covers barely 36 hours, and Lioret renders the uncalculating mechanism of romantic serendipity absolutely convincing. By small increments, the viewer is drawn into a budding complicity that’s spontaneous and joyful, yet already tinged with melancholy and loss.Situational humor is splendidly dosed, and the metaphor of improvisation is never heavy-handed. Lioret’s powers of observation make this trim, affecting film an ode to unexpected emotions and how a brief experiment with a brand new crayon can color a life. Gorgeous lensing brings utterly mundane settings alive, and the score — ’40s Hollywoodian with a touch of jazz — is spot-on.