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Gentille (2005)
Director: Sophie Fillières
Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Bulle Ogier
Runtime98 min
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As Gentille opens, Fontaine Leglou is walking down a Paris street, and stops to confront a man whom she suspects is following her. She tells him he looks normal, but she's sorry, she doesn't have time to have coffee with him. When he convincingly protests that he was not following her, she apologizes and asks him to have coffee. Fontaine would seem to have a relatively good life. She works as an anesthetist at a fancy mental hospital, and she's got a live-in Nobel Prize-winning arctic scientist boyfriend, Michel, who seems to love her. But there's clearly something nagging at her. She walks around in a perpetually distracted state, and frequently mistakes other peoples' identities and their intentions. When Michel proposes to her, she needs some time to digest it before she responds.
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Gentille (2005), directed by Sophie Fillières, is a quirky French comedy that has received positive reviews from critics. The film focuses on the distracted life of an anesthetist named Fontaine Leglou, and its unique premise and Fillières' direction have earned the film acclaim, despite its lack of mainstream popularity.
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Fans of quirky, character-driven French comedies will appreciate the delightfully offbeat charm of 2005's Gentille, directed by Sophie Fillières and starring Emmanuelle Devos as a distracted Parisian anesthetist stumbling through her everyday life. Fillières' playful and nuanced storytelling blends humor and insight, anchored by Devos' compelling performance as a woman grappling with the expectations of her seemingly perfect life.