Jeanne And The Perfect Guy

– Jeanne, a receptionist at a travel agency, is looking for the love of her life. She thinks she has f..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.60 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 38 Minutes
Release Year:
1998
Original Name:
Jeanne et le garçon formidable
Jeanne and the Perfect Guy (1998) - Also known as Jeanne et le garçon formidable

Jeanne, a receptionist at a travel agency, is looking for the love of her life. She thinks she has finally found it with Olivier. However, Olivier reveals he has AIDS and disappears from her life after her profession of love and confession of infidelity.

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Release Date:

16 Apr 1999

Language:

French, English

MPAA Content-Rating:
Unrated

Director:

Olivier Ducastel(co-director), Jacques Martineau(co-director)

Writer:

Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau

Main Actors:

Virginie Ledoyen, Mathieu Demy, Jacques Bonnaffé, Valérie Bonneton

Plot:

Jeanne has an appetite for love that can never be satisfied. Lovers at every corner of her life she is still in search of that "one". When a impromptu tryst on the subway with Olivier gives her butterflies like never before she finally finds herself in love, truly in love. Yet she continues her affairs but now with a realization that they are not what she wants, she wants Olivier. Olivier reluctant to continue the romance with Jeanne for fear of hurting her or worse yet her seeing him at his worse. Olivier reveals to Jeanne he has AIDS from a bad needle during his heroine use. This however does not scare Jeanne off and her love for him turns her into a new person who wants to care for him, but that is not what he wants. The two share a common friend that is an AIDS Activist but they don't know it. Then Olivier because severely ill and Jeanne professes her love and her infidelity. That is the last she ever sees of Olivier. She returns to the hospital to find he has left with his parents, and left no forwarding address. Much time passes, and still the pain of her lost love resides. She knows of nothing of his whereabouts and no way to find him, until she bumps in to a friend that accompanied Olivier on the subway when she met him. Then she finally learns her love has passed on. A musical about the french governments lack of concern and role in the dire conditions of their citizens and about the different classes in society from the immigrant workers, soldiers, upper class and economic dependency on credit cards. A story that covers all walks of life and the pains of love.

Awards:

3 wins & 4 nominations.

Production:

Strand

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%