High Heels
Synopsis
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...
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Actors (18)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producers : Simar Films, Les Films La Boëtie
- Co-production : Cerito Films
- Foreign production company : Rizzoli Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL, Artedis
- French distribution : Les Films La Boëtie
Full credits (18)
- Screenwriters : Paul Gégauff, André Génovès
- Director of Photography : Jean Rabier
- Music Composer : Pierre Jansen
- Assistant directors : Henri Helman, Michel Dupuy, Alain Wermus, Régis Wargnier
- Editor : Jacques Gaillard
- Sound Recordist : Guy Chichignoud
- Costume designers : Karl Lagerfeld, Paulette Breil
- Author of original work : Hubert Monteilhet
- Producer : André Génovès
- Line Producer : Alain Belmondo
- Sound Assistant : Gérard Dacquay
- Production managers : Alain Belmondo, Georges Casati
- Assistant Editor : Jean-Claude Groussard
- Continuity supervisor : Aurore Chabrol
- Foley artist : Louis Devaivre
- Production Designer : Guy Littaye
- Sound Mixer : Maurice Gilbert
- Location managers : Patrick Delauneux, Daniel Deschamps
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- 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
- Audio format : Mono
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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"
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