Jeanne and the Perfect Guy
Synopsis
Jeanne, a beautiful young woman with a profusion of boyfriends, always seems to be in a hurry. One day, she meets Olivier, HIV positive, who turns out to be the true love she’s been searching for. When Olivier learns he has little time to live, he vanishes, leaving a troubled Jeanne alone, desperately searching for some sign of him. After a while, Jeanne learns that Olivier has died. But she resolves that life must go on.
Credits
Actors (26)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Requin
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, M6 Films, France 2 Cinéma, Pyramide Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : Pyramide Distribution
Full credits (19)
- Executive Producers : Cyriac Auriol, Pauline Duhault
- Screenwriters : Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel
- Director of Photography : Matthieu Poirot-Delpech
- Music Composer : Philippe Miller
- Assistant Director : Nicolas Cambois
- Editor : Sabine Mamou
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Jacques Ferran
- Costume designer : Juliette Chanaud
- Co-producer : Fabienne Vonier
- Assistant Operator : Nicolas Pernot
- Production Manager : Hervé Lavayssière
- Press Attaché (film) : Dominique Segall
- Sound Editor : Waldir Xavier
- Assistant editor : Annick Raoul
- Production Assistant : Claudia Neubern
- Continuity supervisor : Isabelle Le Grix
- Production Designer : Louis Soubrier
- Casting : Antoinette Boulat
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Pierre Laforce
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Musical, Drama
- Themes : Illness, Love
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
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Selections (5)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 1999
Best Original Music : Philippe Miller
Best first picture
Delegations (1)
About
To me, Jeanne personifies movement and desire. She’s a very alive person. She has freedom, but it’s not faked or calculated. She’s lively and alert but not very cultivated. She’s not a thinker. She has a humdrum job but doesn’t grumble about it. It’s quite unusual to see women like that in the movies — not brainy-intellectual but not wishy-washy either. That’s what made it an interesting role. I’m very different from Jeanne. I have a bigger guilt complex, for instance, but she’s like me in the way that she has no hangups. It’s a real pleasure to be asked to act a character who has no hangups! (Virginie Ledoyen)
