High HeelsDirected by Claude Chabrol
Produced by Simar Films, Films de la Boëtie
Genres : Fiction - Runtime : 1 h 41 min
French release : 29/09/1972
Production year : 1972
DirectorActorsSynopsis Doctor Popaul doesn't trust beautiful women: he says he prefers "moral beauty". Among colleagues he makes a bet who manages to sleep with the most ugly woman during the next year - and wins. Shortly after he meets the plain Christine on vacation in Tunesia. She leaves him after their first night, but by chance they meet again in Bordeaux. He learns that her father is a wealthy doctor who's very pleased to meet him and encourages him to become his son in law. Just on the wedding Popaul meets Christine's beautiful sister, who has the bad fortune to always marry the dumbest guy around. But Popaul knows how to help her out... Source : IMDb About High Heels is a mystery-comedy of less interest to casual moviegoers than to students of Mr. Chabrol's cinema of cerebral ironies. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a womanizing doctor, a fellow who specializes in women other men do not find attractive, and Mia Farrow as the supposedly ugly duckling he marries, largely at her father's insistence. Laura Antonelli appears as Miss Farrow's beautiful sister, whose presence prompts the film's elaborate revenge plot that has a not entirely unexpected twist-ending. The performances are uniformly good, especially Miss Farrow's, though the wearing of glasses, a brace on her leg and caps on her two upper front teeth does not easily hide her beauty. More interesting than the movie itself is the way its concerns with guilt and roletrading relate to other, far better Chabrol films, including La Femme Infidele. © Vincent Canby, "The New York Times" Source : Production and distributionAssociate production company : Simar Films, Films de la Boëtie
Co-production : Cerito films (exp)
Foreign production company : Rizzoli Film
Film export/Foreign Sales : Studiocanal, Artedis
French distribution : Films de la Boëtie
Full creditsAssistant Directors : Henri Helman, Michel Dupuy, Alain Wermus
Author of original work : Hubert Monteilhet
Producer : André Genoves
Line Producer : Alain Belmondo
Screenwriters : Paul Gegauff, André Genoves
Director of Photography : Jean Rabier
Sound Recordist : Guy Chichignoud
Sound Assistant : Gérard Dacquay
Production Managers : Alain Belmondo, Georges Casati
Editor : Jacques Gaillard
Assistant Editor : Jean-Claude Groussard
Continuity supervisor : Aurore Chabrol
Music Composer : Pierre Jansen
Foley Artist : Louis Devaivre
Production Designer : Guy Littaye
Costume Designers : Karl Lagerfeld, Paulette Breil
Sound Mixer : Maurice Gilbert
Location Managers : Patrick Delauneux, Daniel Deschamps
Technical detailsFeature film
Genres : Fiction
Sub-genre : Drama
Production language : French
Nationality : Majority French (France, Italy)
Production year : 1972
French release : 29/09/1972
Runtime : 1 h 41 min
Current status : Released
Visa number : 39216
Approval : Unknown
Production formats :
35mm
Color type : Color
Sound format : Mono
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